American Labor & Radicalism
This section includes books (both nonfiction and fiction) as well as ephemera related to labor unions and activism, grassroots political organization in fields such as environmentalism and free speech, and the underground press. Our holdings range from academic historical works and labor-themed novels to original leaflets and pamphlets.
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Aorta, a Radical Arts Magazine, No. 4
Oakland: New York Foundation for the Arts, n/a. Magazine. 8.5x11 inch professionally illustrated high quality cover and wraps. 65pp., slight edgewear on cover on spine, else in very good condition. Note: issue is undated. A radical arts magazine with a focus on the counter-establishment in art. More
Cat.No: 292616
An appeal: Lebanon workers, staff members, patients: Residents of the...
Bronx, NY: Association of Federation Workers, [1935]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, paper toned, "May 1935" penned in corner, otherwise very good. Protests the lockout of union organizers working to secure recognition of the Association of Federation Workers (employees of the Federation of Jewish Charities). More
Cat.No: 321500
An Appraisal of the Fatalistic View of Capitalism.
Chicago: Machinery and Allied Products Institute, [1944]. Pamphlet. 39, [1] pages, staplebound pamphlet. Minor tear to edge of rear cover and final leaf. Very Good. A preliminary report part of the trade federation’s task of “a comprehensive analysis and criticism of the Keynes-Hansen over-saving theories and the public policies that..... More
Cat.No: 342092
April 11, Out Now [handbill]
[Ann Arbor]: n.pub. [1970]. 8.5x11 inch handbill printed both sides, very good. No city mentioned, but the planned march was to start at the Diag on the University of Michigan campus. Announces an event featuring Roger Craig, Mike Smith, Peter Camejo, Andrew Zweifler, George Stewart, and Kate Emerson. More
Cat.No: 346214
April 30, 2000: A Call to Remember. 25th Anniversary of...
New York: Vietnam Peace 25th Anniversary Committee, [2000]. Eight panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 336366
April elections a sham - Maintain the embargo against Rhodesia...
Boston, MA: Southern Africa Organizing Committee; Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa, [1979]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed both sides, light wear. Argues that the Rhodesian elections were a face-saving move by Ian Smith's government that failed to share real power with Africans in the country. This leaflet..... More
Cat.No: 176990
[Archive of Becky Jenkins, a therapist and founding member of...
Becky Jenkins was born in New York in 1937. Her family moved to SF two years later. She studied dance and got a BA in Theater Arts from SF State University. As a student, she was politically active and was arrested in 1960 while participating in the first major student..... More
Cat.No: 338217
Are we a bunch of suckers? [broadside]
[Endicott, NY]: Triple Cities Civic and Workers Committee, [1939]. Approximately 8.5x15 inch broadside, horizontal crease, penciled notes at bottom stating "Endicott-Johnson Company Union defense. Binghamton, Johnson City and Endicott, NY. Dec. 1939." In response to an AFL critique of the company's management, pours effusive praise on George F. Johnson as..... More
Cat.No: 321590
Are you concerned? [handbill]
[Washington DC]: npub, [c1970]. 8.5x11 inch handbill urging citizens to call their representatives to pressure them to stop the expansion of the Vietnam war into Cambodia. More
Cat.No: 336113
Are you free to - see, hear, read? The problem...
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1947. Pamphlet. 7p., stapled wraps, 4x9 inches, small stain on front wrap, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 320714
Are You Prepared? Join the 15,000,000 of Us
New York: American Peace Mobilization, [1940]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 4x9 inches, date penned on rear wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 277424
Are you worrying about a job?
[Milwaukee]: Socialist Party [and] Office Workers Union 16456, [c1940s?]. Single sheet folded to make a four panel brochure, 4.25x5.5 inches, slightly misfolded, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 336884
Arise. Vol. 1 no. 3 (April 1938)
New York: Young People's Socialist League, 1938. Magazine. 15p. staplebound magazine, 10x13 inches, minor edgewear. Cover story on a planned "Strike against imperialist war." The editor was Milton Friedman (not THAT Milton Friedman). More
Cat.No: 305395
Arm & hammer pamphlets, no. 12. Essays by Olive M....
New York: Socialist Labor Party, 1929. Pamphlet. 35p., 3.5x6.25 inch staplebound wraps; slight toning from age, minor wear on corners, else very good condition. Essays against the I.W.W. and anarchists. More
Cat.No: 316423
ARM. No. 2
Berkeley: Committee for the American Revolutionary Movement, [197-]. 12p. tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Edited by Al Bari and Elizabeth Bloch, with artwork by Skira. Cover story imagines Batman as a wino, having fallen into despondence after disillusionment with the criminal justice system. Includes the..... More
Cat.No: 213402
ART / Artist Rights Today [card]
San Francisco: [Artist Rights Today], 1986. 5.25x7 inch card with silver, blue, and red design; in very good condition. Benefit concert featuring Zulu Spear, Maria Muldaur, and Sal Valentino among others. More
Cat.No: 346665
ART / Artist Rights Today [card]
San Francisco: [Artist Rights Today], 1986. 5.25x7 inch card with silver, blue, and red design; in very good condition. Benefit concert featuring Jerry Garcia, Country Joe, and Sal Valentino among others. More
Cat.No: 346670
The Art Bulletin: A Quartely Published by The College Art...
New York: College Art Association of America, 1985. pp485-500, stapled once at upper left, 9x11.5 inches, illus., very good condition. Includes the article "Adolf Wolff: Poet, Sculptor and Revolutionist, but Mostly Revolutionist" by Paul Avrich and Francis F. Nauman. Wolff was an anarchist sculptor who taught at the Modern School..... More
Cat.No: 261552
Art meets labor; vol. 1, nos. 1-6
Oak Park, IL: "Art Meets Labor" 1986. Newsletter. Six issues of the bi-monthly, corner stapled newsletter; slight crease on bottom left corners, faint handling and toning, back of issue 1 is foxed, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 314091
The Art of Pamphleteering
New York: League for Industrial Democracy, [c1967]. Pamphlet. [8]p., stapled wraps, 3.75x9 inches, two titles circled in pencil, rubberstamp and splash stain on rear wrap, else good condition. Mostly consists of a list of pamphlets published by LID. Undated, but most of the listed pamphlets are from 1965 to '67..... More
Cat.No: 279154
The art of politics
Greensboro, NC: CrimethInc. ex-Workers' Collective, n.d. Pamphlet. [13p.], 5.5x8.5 inch photocopied zine wraps, not bound, leaves inlaid, slight toning along spine, else very good. More
Cat.No: 285346
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of...
Cambridge: Radcliffe College, [1981]. Pamphlet. 49p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, illus., staples heavily rusted else very good condition. Report on the Library's activities from 1978 to 1981. More
Cat.No: 279626
Article I
San Francisco: United Public Workers, [1950?]. Pamphlet. [4]p., wraps. Very Good. Brief pamphlet issued by the United Public Workers against the Red Scare loyalty oath required by the Levering Act (1950). The union opposes the requirement and argues it is unconstitutional. More
Cat.No: 332071
Articles from ALBANIA TODAY... reprinted by the August 29th Movement
[Los Angeles]: August 29th Movement, [197-]. [56p.], card covers with tape binding over staples, 8.5x11 inches; cover decorated with the emblem of the August 29th Movement, the first autonomous Chicano Marxist-Leninist formation. More
Cat.No: 339293
Artistic Comics: warped laffs from the Columbia College Graphics Dept.
Chicago: Columbia College Graphics Department, 1972. [40p.] staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches, cover design slightly off-center, minor toning, otherwise very good. A compilation with contributions from the Underground Comix Class at Columbia College. Cover by Skip Williamson, with strips by Michael Krueger, Gary Grahnke (?), Bruce Wilson, Pat Schenning, "Sal," "McNaughton,"..... More
Cat.No: 333740
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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