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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
by 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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A$39.22
From Taylorism to Fordism: A Rational Madness
by 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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A$39.22
A Young Miner Sees Russia
by 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$117.66
Didactic Verses
by 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$54.91
The People Be Damned!" A Record of the 53rd Session of the State Legislature of California
by YOUNG, Jack
San Francisco: Daily People's World, 1939. First edition. Illustrated, staplebound wrappers; 48 pp. The Daily People's World was the Communist Party's west coast weekly and published this pamphlet to inform the citizenry of the political screwing doled out to labor, farmers and the unemployed so that big business could thrive. A Near Fine copy with a hint of a wear to wrappers.
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A$23.53
Conspiracy in Coal
by Bethel, T. N
Huntington, W. Va: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972. A reprint of Tom Bethel's article that was originally published in the Washington Monthly. Bethel was the editor of Appalachia Information, which published Coal Patrol Stapled wrappers, 36 p. A near fine copy.
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A$39.22
![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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THE HERITAGE OF SEN KATAYAMA
by 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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A$29.81
By-Laws Adopted by Vote of the Membership October 14, 1969; Approved by General President Hunter P. Wharton December 1, 1969; Local Unions 18,18A, 18B, 18C and 18RA International Union of Operating Engineers
by [International Union of Operating Engineers]
[no place given]: International Union of Operating Engineers, 1969. First Edition. Staplebound. Fine. 16mo, 60pp. A fine copy in the publisher's printed stapled wraps. A scarce pamphlet, as we found no copies in commerce or worldwide library holdings at the time of listing.
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A$54.91
What Editors Say about the Chrysler "Slow-Down" Strike
by [Chrysler Corporation] [Anti-Union]
Detroit, Michigan: Chrysler Corporation, 1939. First Edition. Newspaper-style. Very good +. Folio, in newspaper format. Very good or better, with some sunning to the fold of the first leaf, with just a bit of wear. A few other places of mild offsetting, bu else a fine, crisp, bright copy on bright green paper. A collection of anti-union editorials from newspapers nationwide, collected by the Chrysler Corporation, with two editorial cartoons. Headlines read "Slow Down Strike is Plain...
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A$313.76
UAW - Ford: Sixty Years of Progress 1941 - 2001
Detroit: UAW-Ford National Programs Center, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Quarto, 104pp., illustrated. A fine copy in printed wrappers.
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A$54.91
BEHIND THE URALS : An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
by Scott, John; Kotkin, Stephen
Indiana University Press, 1989. 306pp. Softback, VG, enlarged edition prepared by Stephen Kotkin, Author's account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930's, . Soft Cover. Very Good.
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A$23.53
![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]
by 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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BLACK COAL MINERS IN THE UNITED STATES (OCCASIONAL PAPER, NO. 15)
by Nyden, Paul
New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies (AIMS), 1974. Stapled wraps. Very good. 73p. Stain on spine fold. Analysis of the treatment of Black American workers by union members and management in United States coal mines. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")
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The Toiler's Monthly. A Free Lance Wielded for Workingmen by a Workingman. 7th Year / No. 3 (May 8, 1903)
by 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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CONSTITUTION OF THE OPERATIVE PLASTERERS' AND CEMENT FINISHERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
by 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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The Impact of Military Spending on the Machinists Union
by [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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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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![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]
by [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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The Labor Digest, Vol. 3, No. 6, June, 1910
by STEVENS, E. E. (ed.)
Minneapolis: The Labor Digest, 1910. 8vo (6" x 9¼"); stapled, illustrated wrappers, 39, [1] pp, photographs. A single issue of this moderate labor union journal edited and published by E. E. Stevens in Minneapolis. Content includes: "Payment for Industrial Accidents," various poems and snippets for young boys, girls and women, an editorial, "Railroads Again Victims of the Political Game," many small articles of interest to a labor audience, fiction by Roland Ashfyrd...
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A Look Back: Pages out of American Labor's Past
by 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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Right On Time, Vol. III, No. 7, April 8, 1974
New York: CFC Communications Section, 1974. A scarce single issue of the organ of Centers for Change, an organization founded in NYC in 1968 as IF...THEN. The group was founded by Dr. Fred Newman and was initially anarchistic and confrontational before focusing on serious political organizing. They operated a therapeutic and dental clinic, a communications center, a children's school, etc. and practiced a kind of psychotherapy espoused by Newman. Newman eventually gravitated toward Lyndon...
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Organized Labor in New Jersey
by 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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BILL HAYWOOD'S BOOK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD (JACKET TITLE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BIG BILL HAYWOOD)
by Haywood, William D
New York: International Publishers, 1929. Hardcover. Good +/good +. 368p. New printing, 1958. Page edges brown from acid discoloration, cover corners bumped, jacket has small tears and chips to edges especially at corners with spine sunned. Liberty Book Club News, February 1, 1956 laid in. (8-3/8"x5-3/4")
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A$45.50
Pla de la Victòria: P.S.U. / U.G.T.
by [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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