Search Results: LABOR HISTORY from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

(Gardena, California): Honeywell Inc. & Utility Workers Union of America - AFL-CIO, 1965. Stapled wraps. Good +. 48p. Stain on bottom of front wrap and internal pages. (6"x4")

San Francisco: Irving & Myrtle Auerbach, 1954. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very Good/good. 229p. Signed by author on half title page. Jacket has chips and tears to edges with a 1" tear on top front edge. The author's answer to his title question is "yes." (8-1/4"x5-1/2")

New York: Published for A.I.M.S. by Humanities Press, 1969. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. 198p. Cover corners worn. The autobiographies of the anarchists convicted of the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago, Illinois. Seven men - Albert R. Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, and Louis Lingg - were condemned to death, and Oscar Neebe received 15 years imprisonment. Includes bibliography. (9-1/4"x6-1/8")

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")

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")

New York: International Publishers, 1937. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/good. [xiv], 321p. Endpapers toned, a few edges uncut, top of cover spine torn, jacket has chips and tears to edges. Includes bibliography. A detailed and definitive study of "the extent of child labor in America, in industyr, on the streets, in homes, and in agriculture." [Seidman; L359] (8-3/8"x5-5/8")

San Francisco: Harry Bridges Victory Committee, Citizens Victory Committee, 1942. Stapled Paper Wraps. Good +. Wright, Fred. 23p. 4th printing (1943) Pencil marginalia on back wrap and smudging on front, entire booklet bears a vertical crease from being stored folded. "As assertion that Bridges, through patriotism, imagination, and devotion, has speeded the war effort and helped bring victory to the U.S. In return the government is urged to dismiss all charges against him and clear away any obstacles to citizenship." [Seidman; H343] B&w illustrations by Fred Wright. (7-1/4"x5-1/4")

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")

San Francisco: The People's World, 1940. Soft Cover. Good. Williams, Carleton; A. Redfield and H. Davidson. 102p. 2nd printing. Cover separated from text block although still attached at back hinge, binding weak throughout the book, cover has edge wear, damp stain on back top cover edge. Author's inscription: "To Ned Glass, with best regards, Mike Quin" on first page. B&w illustrations. (9"x6")

Dublin: New Books Publications, 1972. Stapled wraps. Very good. [40p.] Wraps rubbed, former price tag on back. Two tracts by the Irish socialist and labor leader. Erin's Hope is considered "the most important of Connolly's minor writings." The New Evangel is "a collection of essays published in 1901." (7-1/8"x5")

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1939. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. 334p. 1940 printing. Signed by author on card laid in at title page. Name and date on front pastedown, cover stained and spine sunned. "[T]he first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California." Covering "the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry-Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians-the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions" [WorldCat] Includes bibliography. [Nunis; 5253] (8-7/8"x5-7/8")

[San Francisco], [1940?]. Flyer. Very good. Single sheet, one-sided, folded into 4 panels. Chips to corners, verso includes names, box numbers, and figures written in blue pencil and a scribble in pencil. A flyer with a rhyming verse bemoaning the toilet facilities available to longshoremen on the San Francisco docks written by an anonymous dock worker using the pseudonym Spunyarn. The message is addressed to Mr. Marias, or Joseph F. Marias, who was "appointed president of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners (the predecessor of the San Francisco Port Authority) in 1939" and continued as such through World War II. [The San Francisco Examiner, May 28, 1975] The Pacific Coast Marine Safety Code circa 1940 included Rule 407, requiring well-maintained and accessible toilet facilities for those working on board a vessel or on the dock. In November 1946, the Pacific Coast Marine Safety Code was included in the longshore contract by the Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast and the… Read More

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")

Brooklyn: Progressive Labor Party, [1967?]. Stapled wraps. Good +. Unpaginated (approx. 40p.) Pages and wraps toned and fragile with chips to edges. Originally appeared in the Feb./March 1967 issue of PL magazine (Vol. V, #6). B&w photographs. (10-7/8"x8-1/8")

Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles, 1964. Wraps. Very Good. [25p.] Cover lightly worn and creased, cover and page edges browning. Reprinted from Rutgers Law Review, vol. 18, no. 2, Winter 1964. (10-1/8"x7-1/4")

Silver Spring, Maryland: George Meany Memorial Archives, 1998. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. [80p.] Cover edges lightly worn. Includes articles on: National Museum of American History's sweatshop exhibits, St. Paul Union Advocate, coal worker Mike Sabron, and labor organizing Bethlehem Steel. B&w photographs. 4to – over 9¾" – 12" tall.

Silver Spring, Maryland: George Meany Memorial Archives, 1994. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. [80p.] Cover rubbed with edges lightly worn. Includes articles on: industrial recreation; labor unions' recreation opportunities; photographs of working children; Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) and organized labor; and United States progressive politicians: William Gibbs McAdoo, Bainbridge Colby, George William Norris, William Edgar Borah, and Hiram Warren Johnson. B&w photographs. 4to – over 9¾" – 12" tall.

Silver Spring, Maryland: George Meany Memorial Archives, 1994. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. [80p.] Cover rubbed with edges lightly worn. Includes articles on: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organizing in Dallas, Texas; Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Michigan; United Auto Workers; Esther Peterson; and Frank Morrison. Includes index for volume 5. B&w photographs. 4to – over 9¾" – 12" tall.

Silver Spring, Maryland: George Meany Memorial Archives, 1994. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. [80p.] Cover rubbed with edges lightly worn. Includes articles on: Edward Crough, Western Federation of Miners, The Pageant of the Paterson Strike, Mark Anthony Priest's railway paintings, and labor organizer Ken Young. B&w photographs. 4to – over 9¾" – 12" tall.

Silver Spring, Maryland: George Meany Memorial Archives, 1996. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. [80p.] Cover rubbed with edges lightly worn. Includes articles on: 1970 United States postal workers strike; Italian American immigrant workers May Day celebrations; Eric Breitenbach's photographs of Florida workers; and history of International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers. B&w photographs. 4to – over 9¾" – 12" tall.