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The Enemy Within
by Seumas Milne
Seumas Milne is a columnist and Associate Editor on the Guardian and the paper’s former Comment Editor. He was previously the Guardian’s Labour Editor and a staff journalist on the Economist. He is the author of The Enemy Within and co-author of Beyond the Casino Economy.
Minutes Of The Twenty-second Constitutional General Convention Of The Industrial Workers Of The World, November 9-16, 1936
by Industrial Workers Of The World
Diagram Showing the Population Of the United States, At Intervals Of Five Years During the Last Century
by McNally and Co Rand
The Herrin Conspiracy, a Comprehensive Story Of the Slaughter As Presented By Investigators and Eye-Witnesses
by National Coal Association
Coal Mining Books & Ephemera
Songs of Work and Protest
by Fowke, Edith and Joe Glazer. Music arrangements by Kenneth Bray
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1973. Paperback. 209p., plus publisher's menu of other available books, softbound in 10.5x8 inch wraps. All songs are provided with music notation and many additional stanzas. Mild edgewear, a sound, clean, unmarked copy.
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NZ$25.53
'We Make This Country Go'; the United Mine Workers Bicentennial Calendar for 1976
by Witt, Matt, editor; Earl Dotter, photographs; Charles Myers, designer
Washington DC: United Mine Workers Association, 1975. Staplebound. 11x8.5 inches; first edition, b&w photographs, in very good condition.
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NZ$76.60
Selections from the diary and correspondence of Joseph S. Elkinton, 1830 - 1905
by Elkinton, Joseph S
Philadelphia: printed for private distribution, 1913. Hardcover. xiv, 512p., hardcover, minor scuffing and handsoil, wear to bottom of spine with an eighth-inch loss to cloth rim; inscribed by the author to Ralston B. Hoopes. Bookseller's penciled annotation to front endpaper. The Quaker author discusses his work with African Americans, workers (including coal miners), the Doukhobors, Native Americans, etc.
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NZ$127.66
Diamond in the Coalpit
by Taylor, Clement A
New York: Vantage Press, 1954. Hardcover. 171p., original black cloth boards, slightly edgeworn dust jacket, spine somewhat toned, else in very good condition. Novel, signed and inscribed by the author.
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NZ$85.11
The Molly Maguires
by Broehl, Wayne G., Jr
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Hardcover. vi, [iv], 409p., map, illus., first printing, previous owner's name on front blank, else very good condition in a shelf worn and chipped dj.
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NZ$28.94
Pioneers in cooperation, the National Coal Policy Conference, Inc
by Love, George H
Washington DC: National Coal Policy Conference, Inc, 1961. Pamphlet. [13p.], stapled wraps, library stamps and sticker on front wrap else clean, 8x5.5 inches. Collaboration between the bosses and UMWA.
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NZ$25.53
Old father antic
by Stevenson, Philip [as Lars Lawarence]
London: John Calder, 1961. Hardcover. 460p., first British edition, Good in a shelfworn and soiled dust jacket with a few closed tears, some internal non-archival tape repair, spine toned, overall also about good. Rideout author. The seed, a trilogy. Part 2, vol. 1. "... set in a southwest company-owned mining town, ... the story of coal miners struggling for a better life"(dust jacket panel).
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NZ$34.04
Coal miners and steel workers: united struggle can win!
by Hall, Gus
New York: New Outlook Publishers & Distributors, 1978. Pamphlet. 15p. pamphlet, very good condition, 7.3x9.5 inches.
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NZ$25.53
When the whistle blows, songs by Sue Edmonds
by Edmonds, Sue
Wollngong, New South Wales: Sounds of the Illawarra, 1986. Pamphlet. 38p., 8.5x11 inch wraps, taped-binding, slight damp wrinkle on last few pages, otherwise in very good condition.
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NZ$59.58
William Green: a pictorial biography
by Danish, Max D
New York: Inter-Allied Publications, 1952. Hardcover. 190p., illus., gift inscription on free front endpaper else very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dj.
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NZ$20.43
Myth-making as labor history: Herbert Gutman and the United Mine Workers of America
by HIll, Herbert
N.pl: International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 1988. Pamphlet. pp. 132-200, offprint, wraps, block slightly wrinkled from dampstain, worn along staplebound spine, staples a bit rusted, else good. Inscribed and signed to Martin Oppenheimer by Herbert Hill.
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NZ$25.53
A strike like no other strike, law & resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989 - 1990
by Brisbin, Richard A., Jr
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Hardcover. 350p., first printing, very good condition in like dust jacket.
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NZ$20.43
Burning valley, a novel
by Bonosky, Phillip
New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1953. Hardcover. 288p., first edition, fore-edge, top and bottom edges of textblock, and endpapers foxed, slip of paper stapled to free front endpaper, else good condition in an unclipped, shelfworn, and dampstained dj. *Rideout novel. "This is the sensitively told story of the working people who lived in the Hollow, and of their struggle against the hunger that haunted the shacks and mining patches sprawling across the hills and valleys of Western Pennsylvania." - dj.
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NZ$110.64
A poem. Buy a bond for this American boy today. A poem that was taken from the body of an American soldier in France -- he may be your son, brother or sweetheart
by [United Mine Workers of America]
[Washington, DC?]: United Mine Workers of America, 1919. handbill leaflet. Small handbill, printed on both sides, 5.25x8.5 inches, text with a decorative border and a small black & white American flag, minor creasing, one closed tear (old thumb tack hole).
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NZ$212.78
Only a miner: studies in recorded coal-mining songs
by Green, Archie
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Hardcover. xiv, 504p., illus., very good condition in like dust jacket. Music in American Life.
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NZ$59.58
Songs of work and freedom.; Music arrangement, Kenneth Bray; art work, Hope Taylor
by Fowke, Edith and Joe Glazer
Chicago: Roosevelt University, Labor Education Division, 1960. 208p., soiled and chipped stiff wraps, spiral bound, music, 8x10.5 inches.
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NZ$20.43
The Molly Maguires
by Broehl, Wayne G., Jr
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Hardcover. vi, [iv], 409p., map, illus., second printing, rubberstamp on front blank, else very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dj.
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NZ$28.94
The case of the bituminous coal mine workers; as presented by the United Mine Workers of America to the President's Coal Commission, appointed December, 1919
by United Mine Workers of America
Washington: UMWA, 1920. Pamphlet. 79p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, short tear at top of spine fold, general soiling, lightly warped else good condition. Includes some discussion of occupational safety & health issues.
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NZ$42.56
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942
by Troutman, Mitch; foreword by Staughton Lynd
Oakland: PM Press, 2022. Paperback. xxvii, 255p., wraps, new.
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NZ$37.45
Labor agreements in coal mines: a case study of the administration of agreements between miners' and operators' organizations in the bituminous coal mines of Illinois
by Bloch, Louis
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1931. Hardcover. 513p., tables, diagrams, bookplate of the Foundation, remainder mark on bottom edge of textblock else very good condition in like dust jacket. Industrial relations series.
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NZ$51.07
The mine the workers ran; the 1975-79 success story at Nymboida the work-ins that saved a coalmine
by Thomas, Pete (for the Miners Federation)
Sydney: Australian Coal & Shale Employees Federation, 1975. Pamphlet. 72p., 5.5x8.5 inches; illustrated with photos, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps.
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NZ$34.04
Written in blood, courage and corruption in the Appalachian war of extraction
by Harris, Wess, ed
Oakland: PM Press, 2017. Paperback. 252p., wraps, illus. Like new.
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NZ$20.43
Mother Jones, Woman Organizer and Her Relations With Miners' Wives, Working Women, and the Suffrage Movement
by Long, Priscilla
Cambridge, MA: Red Sun Press, 1976. Pamphlet. 40p., wraps, illus., first edition, very good condition, 6.5x8.25 inches. At head of title: You don't need a vote to raise hell.
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NZ$25.53
Miners struggle at a crossroads
by Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Chicago: RCP Publications, 1978. Pamphlet. 14p., staplebound pamphlet, paper evenly toned. "This article was written shortly before the 1977-78 contract strike of coal miners began. It appeared in the December, 1977, issue of Revolution, the newspaper of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
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NZ$20.43
Coal Exploration, volume 2
by George O. Argall
Miller Freeman Publications. Very Good. Hardcover. 1979. 560 pages. <br> .
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NZ$12.00
