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The Book Of the Amalgamated Of New York, 1914-1940 Presented To the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Convention Of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of America
by Ed Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of America; J B S Hardman
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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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£28.33
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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£28.33
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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£20.24
Collectivism and Industrial Evolution (Standard Socialist Series)
by VANDERVELDE, Èmile
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1901. First edition. Twelvemo. Publisher's decorative cloth; 199 pp.; photographic frontispiece of the author. With the stamp of 'Wm Bonstein's Library of Science and Socialism' to the endpapers. William Bonstein appears to have been an unimportant Socialist Labor Party candidate in Washington state during the 1904 election. The author was a Belgian statesman and democratic socialist and in this book argues for collectivization as a core attribute of...
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£36.43
![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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£526.18
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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£16.19
Haywood Trial. Closing Argument of W.E. Borah
by [IWW] [BIG BILL HAYWOOD] BORAH, W.E. [William Edgar]
Boise, ID: The Statesman Shop, [1907]. First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers; 130pp. Light wear and soil, with bumps at crown and heel of spine; still a clean, sound copy, Very Good. Full transcription of Borah's closing statement as prosecuting attorney in the case of Idaho vs. William D. Haywood et. al., for the 1905 murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. Borah lost the case to the brilliant defense of Clarence Darrow (the assassin was eventually discovered to be Harry Orchard, a former...
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£60.71
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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£68.81
The Amalgamated - Today and Tomorrow: The Accomplishments, the Policies and the Aims of the ORganized Clothing Workers of the Nation
by Hardman, J.B.S
New York: The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1939. First edition. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 144pp. Illus. Mild toning & edgewear to fragile wallet-edged covers; internally fresh and unmarked. A quite solid copy overall of an uncommon union history.
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£20.24
![Wisconsin Industry and the Wisconsin Tax System [Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Bureau of Business and Economic Research No. 3]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/558/787/1240787558.0.b.jpg)
Wisconsin Industry and the Wisconsin Tax System [Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Bureau of Business and Economic Research No. 3]
by LEFFLER, George Leland
Madison: University of Wisconsin / Bureau of Business and Economic Research, [1931]. Second Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; 124pp.; illus. in text. Ex-Library of the Department of Economics, Brown University, with their contemporary markings, a few tiny chips to wrapper extremities, else Very Good and sound. First published the previous year.
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£28.33
The International Labor Organization
by TAYLER, William Lonsdale
N.p., 1937. Offprint. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 19pp. A hint of toning, else Near Fine. Article first published in "International Institutions and World Peace," the proceedings of the Institute of Public Affairs, Dallas, Texas, April 26-30, 1937.
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£16.19
Trade Unionists Report on Poland
by CRONE, F.A. and Harry Knight
London: The British-Polish Society, [1947]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers, 8pp. Text paper age-toned, else Very Good. Statements by two British trade unionists on the state of post-war Polish labor, reported from the 1947 Congress of Technicians, Katowice.
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£20.24
Kritik der Mitbestimmung: Partnerschaft oder Klassenkampf
by DEPPE, Frank et al
[Frankfurt am Main]: Suhrkamp Verlag, [1969]. 2nd (1970) Printing. 12mo (18cm.); orange printed card wrappers; 277pp. Some general shelf wear and brief soil to textblock edges, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in German.
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£12.14
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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£161.90
The Blacksmiths' History: What Smithy Workers Gave Trade Unionism
by Tuckett, Angela
London: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd, 1974. First edition. Octavo. Tan cloth (hardcover); 418pp; illus. Fine in barely edgeworn dustjacket.
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£20.24
![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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£121.42
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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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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£16.19
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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£28.33
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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£40.48
![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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£28.33
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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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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£12.14
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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£15.38
The Coal Miner's Struggle in Eastern Kentucky, with a critical comment by Rich Kirby and a reply by Nyden
by Nyden, Paul
Huntington, West Virginia: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972. This article and the responses first appeared in Mountain Life & Work from February to April, 1972." Stapled wrappers, 28 p. A fine copy.
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£20.24
