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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[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of...
Philadelphia: Vail Brothers, [188-]. Stiff card, slightly larger than 4x6.25 inches, with Powderly's portrait (a sepia photograph from the negative) on one side and text about Ideal Tooth Powder and Ideal Quinine and Sulphur Toilet Soap on the other. Plate measures 3.5x5 inches; his moustache about 1.3 inches from left..... More
Cat.No: 212110
Advocate Vol. IV, No. 3. October 1941
Washington DC: Dollar An Hour Club, 1941. Pamphlet. [8]p., wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Two horizontal folds for mailing, as issued. With printed mailing envelope, blank membership form, and blank presidential nomination form. Includes a postcard with a long typed message urging adoption of “righteous credit” to combat communism, Fascism..... More
Cat.No: 322703
AFC Spotlight: Vol. 1, Book 3, Spring Edition
Pasadena: American Friends Service Committee, [c1979]. 7p. 8.5x11 inches, wraps secured by folding, creased from being folded in half for mailing, address label on rear wrap else very good newsletter printed on cream stiff stock. Cover story on Iran and Afghanistan. More
Cat.No: 251220
Affirmative action and discrimination: Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher...
San Francisco: APAHE, 1996. Paperback. 156p., wraps, very good. Keynote address by Dana Takagi. More
Cat.No: 260194
The AFL-CIO Abroad: The Truth About AIFLD
Washington DC: AIFLD Information, [c1973]. Four panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, top corner bumped, very good condition. AIFLD (American Institute for Free Labor Development) worked with the CIA to undermine workers' movements in Latin America. Dated from reference to the overthrow of Salvador Allende. More
Cat.No: 339301
AFL-CIO Convention. October 23-26, 1995. New York City
New York: AFL-CIO, 1995. Cardboard Covers. Double cardstock folder with facing pockets, 11x9 inches folded, one pocket containing an oversize paperbound of 227p with color vignette chapter heads, the opposite pocket holding an 8.5x5.5 inch booklet labelled "1995 Resolutions, Book One", and a flyer (described below). The folder is wrinkled..... More
Cat.No: 257562
The AFL-CIO Platform Proposals. Presented to the Democratic and Republican...
Washington DC: AFL-CIO, 1976. Pamphlet. 62p., stapled wraps, 8.25x11 inches, vertically creased, rear wrap unevenly toned, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 283396
Africa Freedom Day - April 15th [handbill]
Ann Arbor: African Students Association of the University of Michigan, [1970]. Double-sided 8.5x11 inch handbill of an event program; in very good condition. Event primarily focused on South Africa. More
Cat.No: 343266
The African World. Vol. IV no. 11 (Sept. 1975)
Washington DC: February First Movement, 1975. Tabloid format newspaper, 16p., evenly toned, some edgewear with closed edge tears. More
Cat.No: 344353
Afrikan Awakener: an organ of the Pan Afrikan Peoples' Organization...
San Francisco: Patrice Lumumba Publishers, 1978. 12p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned with minor wear. More
Cat.No: 345454
AFSC Perspectives on the Employer Sanctions Provisions of the Immigration...
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1989. Pamphlet. 24p. staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 267103
AFSCME Officers Manual: Information for local union officers
Washington DC: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, [1972-1981]. Pamphlet. 27p., stapled wraps, 8.5x9 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. Dated from the union's leadership at the time (Jerry Wurf, International President and William Lucy, International Secretary-Treasurer). More
Cat.No: 259202
After the elections what next? How to end starvation. A....
San Francisco: Western Worker Publishers, 1934. 16p. staplebound pamphlet, paper toned, otherwise very good. 5x6.5 inches. "If you would like to improve your conditions and eventually solve for all time your economic and political difficulties, you will not be mis-led into chasing will-o'-the-wisps, such mis-leaders and careerists as Sinclair, or..... More
Cat.No: 338677
After Winter Must Come Spring: A Self-Critical Evaluation of the...
New York: Freedom Road Socialist Organization, nd. Pamphlet. 44p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Later printing of a work originally published in 1999. More
Cat.No: 256777
Aftermath of Jarvis-Gann: What's it all about?
[Bay Area, CA]: California Labor-Community Coalition, [197-]. Four-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, very good. On the effects of Prop. 13 on working people. More
Cat.No: 204815
Against education: the abolition of school
n.p. 1999. [11p], 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet of folded sheets in plain white wraps printed with black text. Anonymous anarchist anti-organized education pamphlet. Argues that education is a tool of mind control, and that the public library is a far more effective learning resource than a university..... More
Cat.No: 130515
Against feminism. Link the struggle for our rights to the...
Montreal: Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist), 1978. 32 page staplebound pamphlet, "Please return to Ann Tompkins" penned at top of front cover, otherwise minor handling wear. Second edition. (Ann Tompkins was one of the few Americans to participate in China's Cultural Revolution. She lived there from 1965 to 1970.). "Criticism of..... More
Cat.No: 342612
Against Nazi Crimes, a resolution presented by the Polish delegation...
New York: Polish Labor Group, 1944. 8p. staplebound pamphlet, very good, reprinted from the International Labor Conference Provisional Record of a meeting in Philadelphia. More
Cat.No: 320538
Against opportunism and amateurishness: the struggle to build the Party
San Francisco: San Francisco Marxist-Leninist Organization, 1974. 26p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, errata slip stapled inside front cover, minor foxing and handling wear. A polemic against "Comrade X," first quoting his statement to the Organization, and then analyzing how it represents opportunism and a petty-bourgeois class stand. More
Cat.No: 269629
Against Sleep and Nightmare, No. 3
Oakland: ASAN, [1990s]. Magazine. 29p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illus., pages slightly toned else very good condition. One man anonymous ultra-left zine published out of Oakland in the '80s and '90s. Influenced by perspectives of the Situationists and Fredy Perlman's Black & Red publications. More
Cat.No: 235032
Against Sleep and Nightmare, No. 5
Oakland: ASAN, [1990s]. Magazine. 29p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illus., wraps creased else good condition. One man anonymous ultra-left zine published out of Oakland in the '80s and '90s. Influenced by perspectives of the Situationists and Freddy Perlman's Black & Red publications. More
Cat.No: 235033
The Agitator no. 2 (March 10, 1968)
Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom Party / Peace and Freedom Movement, 1968. 8p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter; evenly toned, some rubbing on back cover, else very good. More
Cat.No: 340677
Agrarian Advocate; the bimonthly publication of the California Agrarian Action...
Davis, CA: California Agrarian Action Project, 1986. 8p., folded tabloid newspaper; toned, very good. More
Cat.No: 344511
Agreement between Beverly Enterprises D.B.A. Forestdale Health Care Center, Foresdale...
Birmingham, AL: 1987. 21p., staplebound booklet, very good. More
Cat.No: 244147
Agreement between Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the Foothill-De...
Los Altos Hills: the college, 2004. Spiral_bound. 267p., a superior "copyshop" type of binding, with its white plastic "comb"-fastened spine professionally printed with title, a fine copy. Includes a lengthy topic index with dozens of differentiated entries on matters like sick leave, on tenure, on rights of part-time employees, &c..... More
Cat.No: 290403
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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