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The Fight In the Fields
de Ferriss- Susan/ Sandoval- Ricardo/ Hembree- Diana
A “vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement”(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWilliams, Victor Villaseñor, Alfredo Véa, Jr., Peter Matthiessen, Rudolfo Anaya, and others. Black-and-white photographs throughout.
The Herrin Massacre What the Leading Newspapers Of the Country Have To Say On the Wholesale Murders In the Southern Illinois Coal Strike
de John Price Jones
Divisas Libros & Coleccionables
Pla de la Victòria: P.S.U. / U.G.T.
de [SPANISH CIVIL WAR] PARTIT SOCIALISTA UNIFICAT DE CATALUNYA / UNIÓ GENERAL DE TREBELLADORS
[Barcelona: P.S.U. / U.G.T., n.d. but ca. 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); bifolium printed on newsprint, photo-montaged upper panel. A hint of wear and toning, else Near Fine. Promotional handbill issued at the height of the Spanish Civil War delineating the platform of the short-lived Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, the Catalan referent of the Communist Party of Spain, and its workers' union. The lovely photo-montaged upper panel depicts both military scenes, agricultural activities, and, at...
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The Anvil: A Conservative Labor Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, August, 1965
de SULLIVAN, John S. (ed.)
New York: Labor Educational Association, 1965. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, photographs. Toning to newsprint, a few nicks and small closed tears, but VG overall. One issue (not this one) found in OCLC at Kansas, although we note one other issue in the Billy James Hargis papers in the Univ. of Arkansas Special Collections. Scarce. A single issue of the right wing labor paper, previously unknown to us, published in New York City by the generically named Labor Educational Association. We...
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A Young Miner Sees Russia
de Daly, Lawrence
Edinburgh: National Union of Mineworkers (Scottish Area), 1946. A report by a young British miner who was a part of a delegation of 17 young people invited to tour the Soviet Union in December 1945 by the Soviet Anti-Fascist Youth Committee. Daly writes favorably about his experiences and the potential to learn about the Soviet's nationalized coalmining industry, which he hopes is adopted in Britain. He's also concerned with the deteriorating relationship between Britain and the Soviet Union and hopes...
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A Look Back: Pages out of American Labor's Past
de DRESSMAKERS UNION LOCAL 22
New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, 1950. First Edition. Oblong quarto (23cm x 30cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; [36]pp; chiefly illus. Mild external dusting; Near Fine. Pictorial history of American labor struggles, beginning with the birth of the AFL (1886) and concluding with the massive protest by Dressmakers on the streets of New York City in May, 1949. Issued as a premium for distribution at the 50th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. An...
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Didactic Verses
de PFAFF, Henry J
Buffalo: Henry J. Pfaff, 1983. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original cream staplebound card wrappers; [2],62pp. Fine. Collection of protest poetry by a member of the IWW. Not in MILES.
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A Time for Anger. An Address by Albert Whitehouse, Director, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO at the Public Relations Seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, April 16, 1959
de WHITEHOUSE, Albert
Washington DC: Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, (1959). First Edition. Staple bound pamphlet. Slim octavo (9" x 4"); printed glossy paper wrappers; 16pp. Clean and free of significant wear; Near Fine. Transcript of Whitehouse's speech to Harvard MBA candidates, a surprisingly strident attack (given the audience) against big business, conformity, and the society's loss of cohesion in the post-War era. "...It is time to take up the cudgels against the present dead level of conformity and for plain...
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The Impact of Military Spending on the Machinists Union
de [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS] ANDERSON, Marion
Washington DC: International Association of Machinists (IAM), 1979. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound card wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text margins, else Fine. Argues for a rebalancing of defense spending, with greater apportionment to civilian infrastructure projects and alternative energy initiatives.
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Victory Peace and Jobs: Report of UE-CIO Officers for 1943-44
New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, CIO, 1944. A detailed report "directed to Delegates of the Tenth Constitutional Convention, to the members, shop stewards, local and district officers" of the achievements of the UE and CIO over the preceding year. Includes sections on war production, war & peace economies, employment for veterans and women, political campaigning to re-elect FDR, publicity & public relations, and the union's structure and leadership. Also includes a...
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The Labour Woman: A Political Monthly Journal for Working Women, Vol. XXIII, No. 12, December, 1935
de SUTHERLAND, Mary E. (ed.); MAETERLINCK, Maurice (contributor)
London: Labour Party, 1935. 4to (8½" x 11"); stapled wrappers, 178-192 pp, illus. A single issue of this monthly Labour Party periodical begun in 1913 and devoted to the interests of women. Content for this issue includes a profile of Labour Party leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Arthur Henderson; an article concerning equal pay in the state service; impressions from two different women on traveling to Sweden; a literary contribution from the Belgian writer, Maurice Maeterlinck...
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![Working and Fighting Together Regardless of Race, Creed, Color or National Origin [with] Report of the National CIO Commitee to Abolish Discrimination](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/478/135/1557135478.0.b.jpg)
Working and Fighting Together Regardless of Race, Creed, Color or National Origin [with] Report of the National CIO Commitee to Abolish Discrimination
Washington, D. C.: National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 1945. Two pamphlets documenting the Congress of Industrial Organization's campaign to eliminate racism & discrimination within the labor movement. In Working and Fighting Together, the Committee to Abolish Discrimination answers the question, "What can unions do about the problems of minorities in their own organizations?" The Report of the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination addresses the concerns of Negro veterans as...
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Law and disorder on the Narova River; the Kreenholm strike of 1872
de Zelnik, Reginald E
Berfkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Hardcover. xv, 308p., period illustrations, first edition boards in wine cloth, glossy dj, spine panel of jacket mildly faded. A very good copy.
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A SALUTE TO HARRY BRIDGES PRESENTED BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH, FEBRUARY 9, 1986
Los Angeles: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 1986. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 36p.) Wrap edges lightly scraped. Program for the Harry Bridges Testimonial Dinner with essays about Bridges' influence on trade unionism filled with tributes to the honoree from union locals, community members, and politicians. Australian-born Bridges founded the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) to represent West Coast stevedores and other...
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THE HERITAGE OF SEN KATAYAMA
de Yoneda, Karl G
New York: History Commission, CPUSA, [1975]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 23p. A few chips on back and stains on front. Brief biography explaining the influence of the "Japanese Marxist political activist and journalist, " one of the original members of the American Communist Party and the Japanese Communist Party. Article reprinted from the March 1975 issue of Political Affairs, theoretical journal of the Communist Party U.S.A. (8-1/2"x5-3/8")
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CONSTITUTION OF THE OPERATIVE PLASTERERS' AND CEMENT FINISHERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
de Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association of the United States and Canada
Denver, Colorado: Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association of the United States and Canada, 1923. Stapled wraps. Very good. 48p. Wrap edges toned, creases to wraps causing the booklet to be a bit misshapen. (6"x3-5/8")
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From Taylorism to Fordism: A Rational Madness
de DORAY, Bernard; David Macey, trans.; Maurice Godelier, foreword
London: Free Association Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 229pp. Trivial age toning to margins of textblock, faint creasing to hinges of spine, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine. An exploration of the history of "scientific management" as it affects the work process and the psychiatry of workers.
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Justice - North Carolina Style: The Record of the Year's Struggle for Unions in Gastonia and Marion, April 1929 to April 1930
de [American Civil Liberties Union]
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1930. A report on the violence perpetrated against organized workers in Gastonia and Marion, NC during labor struggles in 1929, in which 7 strikers were killed, 24 wounded, 7 sentenced to long prison terms and 7 kidnapped. Key events and participants are summarized. The ACLU helped with the defense of arrested workers and created this pamphlet "to state the facts and to help arouse public opinion." Stapled wrappers (9" x 6") with map of North Carolina to front...
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Organized Labor in New Jersey
de TROY, Leo
New York: Van Nostrand, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 237pp. Fine, unmarked copy in jacket - a new-appearing copy, except that the front jacket flap has been price-clipped. The development of labor in New Jersey from colonial times through the nineteen-sixties.
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EUR 18.85
![Young Workers of Pateson [sic]! Colored and White - Demonstrate on National Youth Day, May 30th](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/124/648/1482648124.0.b.jpg)
Young Workers of Pateson [sic]! Colored and White - Demonstrate on National Youth Day, May 30th
Paterson, N. J.: United Front National Youth Day Committee, 1933. A flyer for National Youth Day, a Young Communist League-sponsored event provocatively held on Memorial Day, 1933 to "demonstrate against the danger of Bosses' War, against the growing unemployment, against wage cuts and discrimination of Negro workers." Although advertised as being held in Passaic, it's presumed the event was moved to Perth Amboy as we find accounts in the Communist and Socialist press of a brutal attack by police on the...
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The Toiler's Monthly. A Free Lance Wielded for Workingmen by a Workingman. 7th Year / No. 3 (May 8, 1903)
de KINSEL, Jac. (ed)
Altoona: Jac. Kinsel, 1903. First Edition. Single octavo issue in original pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Slight external wear; internally clean, tightly bound and free of markings or significant wear; Very Good. Progressive, populist, pro-labor monthly devoted primarily to local and regional interests. The editor, Rev. Jacob Kinsel (d. 1938), was a long-time editor of Altoona's Democratic daily The Mirror and an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. This publication, which appears to...
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Go Fight City Hall": A History of Our Union in Welfare
New York: United Public Workers Local 1, 1949. On the history and activities of United Public Workers Local 1, which began as the Emergency Home Relief Bureau Employees Association during the Great Depression. It later became the Association of Workers in Public Relief Agencies before becoming the largest civil service workers' organization in the United States. Stapled wrappers, 22 p., illustrations. A near fine copy.
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![Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America [Inscribed 1st Printing]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/809/274/1113274809.0.b.jpg)
Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America [Inscribed 1st Printing]
de [ANARCHISM] ADAMIC, Louis
New York: Viking Press, 1931. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth boards, with applied paper title labels to spine and front cover; dustwrapper; 452pp. Inscribed on half-title: "To Mr. George Schmitter with best wishes," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Another hand has added initials and a date of 1934 beneath the inscription; a later owner has added a commercial bookplate to the dedication leaf (facing copyright page). The book is a solid, Very Good...
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McCarthy: The Man and the Ism
de MORTON, Joseph
San Francisco: The Pacific Publishing Foundation, 1953. An early critical pamphlet of the Wisconsin Senator, which questions his military service record, highlights his unscrupulous law practice and shady financial dealings, exposes his connections with the extreme right fringe, and discusses his repressive Red Scare demagoguery. The concluding section suggests that "because of its cohesion, organized power, and manifest self-interest, labor is in the best position to lead a united crusade against...
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Images du Travail: Peintures et Dessins des Collections Françaises
de MUSÉE NATIONAL FERNAND LÉGER
[Paris]: Ministère de la Culture, Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985. First Edition. Square quarto (20.75cm.); original black pictorial card wrappers; 211pp.; illus., a few in color, throughout. Light shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Catalog for the exhibit of the same title, held July 6-October 7, 1985, at the Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, Alpes-Maritimes.
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![Report of the Proceedings of the Sixty-Third Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor Held at Boston, Massachusetts, October 4 to 14, inclusive, 1943 [John A. O'Connell's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/395/607/1318607395.0.b.jpg)
Report of the Proceedings of the Sixty-Third Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor Held at Boston, Massachusetts, October 4 to 14, inclusive, 1943 [John A. O'Connell's copy]
de AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Washington DC: Ransdell Inc, 1943. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); green cloth presentation binding stamped in gilt; xxxviii,644pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good or better. Founding member of the Teamster's Union John A. O'Connell's copy with his name embossed in gilt to upper cover.
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