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The Boston times, vol. 1, no. 4, March 25, 1932
by Boston Times Publishing Company
Boston: Boston Times, 1932. Newspaper. Eight page newspaper, 11x16 inches, creased horizontally, stain on front page and a few minor stains on inside pages, paper still white (printed on better than average paper). "Published by Unemployed Union Printers." Pro-labor newspaper, lead over the fold article "1600 back in garment strike, victory for the closed shop!" Includes a number of pro-labor articles, attacks Roosevelt's campaign for using scab signs.
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SGD 103.40
Freeman or slave? A book of suppressed information. Wayland's monthly, no. 61, May, 1905
by Warren, Fred D
Girard, KS: J. A. Wayland, 1905. 64p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, wraps slightly soiled and browned, paper slightly browned, wraps beginning to split along spine else good condition. Entire issue devoted to Warren's work. Cover title: Some suppressed information. Warren covers unemployment, housing issues, distribution of wealth and more.
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SGD 130.98
A job ain't the answer
by National Organization for an American Revolution
Philadelphia: NOAR, 1981. Pamphlet. Four-page 7x8.5 inch brochure, very good. The group was founded by James and Grace Lee Boggs. They argued that, although a revolution would one day take place, the immediate goal of activists should be to empower and cultivate leaders among their ranks "so that we can stop seeing ourselves as victims and start exercising the power within us to control our own destiny.
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SGD 20.68
Taxing Unearned Income
by LEWIS, Alfred Baker
[Boston: Socialist Party of Massachusetts, ca 1932]. Octavo (22.75cm.); single sheet folded into 4-panelled pamphlet; upper panel illustrated with a cartoon depicting a pair of one-percenters sneering at a common laborer. Light wear; Very Good or better. Campaign leaflet. Undated, but probably issued for the 1932 Massachusetts gubernatorial election. Alfred Baker Lewis ran for Massachusetts Governor in 1930, 1932, 1934 and 1936. No mention is made here of national candidates, so we would presume the...
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SGD 62.04
War and unemployment: capitalism the cause, socialism the solution A Socialist Labor Party statement
by Socialist Labor Party
Brooklyn: New York Labor News Co, 1970. Pamphlet. 14p., wraps, 5x7 inches; very good condition, distribution sticker on front wrap for Palo Alto, CA.
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SGD 16.54
What to do when you're out of work
by Congress of Industrial Organizations, Political Action Committee
Washington DC: CIO Political Action Committee, 1952. Pamphlet. Small four panel brochure, 4.25x5.5 inches (folded size), minor browning on rear panel else very good condition. For increasing unemployment compensation.
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SGD 16.54
Join the fight for 30 hours work for 40 hours pay!
San Francisco: Shorter Work Week Coalition, 1973. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure for Proposition L, a charter amendment for a shorter work week. Some handling wear, minor wear along top-edge, uneven toning, else good.
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SGD 20.68
The land of the free... Socialist America
by Socialist Party. Committee on Education and Research
Chicago: Education Committee, Socialist Party, 1936. Pamphlet. 15p., stapled wraps, wraps slightly browned, a few small stains and spots of silverfishing on front wrap else good condition, 5.5x8.25 inches. Profits and poverty series, no. 3.
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SGD 20.68
Unemployment and the machine
by Industrial Workers of the World
Chicago: IWW, 1934. Pamphlet. 48p., staplebound pamphlet, 5.35x7.5 inches, rubberstamp of San Francisco Branch No. 1 on cover.
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SGD 27.57
Dangerous Scot: The Life and Work of an American "Undesirable
by Williamson, John, foreword by Gus Hall
New York: International Publishers, 1969. Paperback. 221p., first edition, wrappers slightly soiled, rubberstamp on title-page, minor edgewear, else in very good condition.
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SGD 41.36
Out of a job
by Weitz, Louis
New York: Peoples Educational Society, 1915. Paperback. 60p., 5x7.5 inches; small sticker on front wrap, slight toning, minor chips on a few front wrap corners, tail of spine panel is cracked and somewhat loose, small chip at head of spine, wraps loose along hinge, else very good. Signed and inscribed by the author to Mary Marcy + review copy note signed by the author partially pasted on half-title page.
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SGD 89.62
Ryt Ryting: The Urgency of Spelling Reform
by Hotson, Clarence
Kennewick WA: made for the author by Robert W. Shields, 1965. Pamphlet. 15p., oversize pamphlet in 10x8 inch plain printed white wraps, staple-fastened. Starts off, "Recently an educational authority declared that by 1970 there will be only one poorly paid job available for every five boys who have failed to graducate from high school. The demand for unskilled labor has been constantly shrinking in the face of increased automation" -- and we had only just begun the "corporate flight" that would send...
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SGD 20.68
Demonstrate April 26 - Washington, DC - Kennedy Stadium 1 PM
by [CHICAGO MOBILIZATION FOR MARCH ON WASHINGTON]
Chicago: Chicago Mobilization for March on Washington, N.d. [1975?]. Broadside (bulletin-board flyer), 11" x 8-1/2". Mimeographed; printed recto-only on standard white bond. Near Fine. Protest flyer, announcing a March on Washington DC to protest unemployment, inflation, military spending, and welfare roll-backs. With reservation blank (unused) at bottom margin.
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SGD 41.36
Here's a real job for you!! Pass the American Youth Act! Speech delivered by Joseph Cadden, Executive Secretary, American Youth Congress, at National Youth Citizenship Institute, Washington, D.C.
by Cadden, Joseph
New York: American Youth Congress, 1940. Pamphlet. 11p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, wraps worn, dampstain along top edge.
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SGD 20.68
Mr. Galsworthy's appeal for the miners
by Galsworthy, John
London: Society of Friends (Quakers), The Coalfields Distress Committee, 1928. Four panel brochure, 5.25x8.25 inches, very good condition. Leaflet No. 2.
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SGD 20.68
Skid Row, U.S.A.
by Harris, Sara
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Hardcover. 285p., first edition, endpapers lightly foxed, previous owner's inscription on front pastedown endpaper, else good condition in an edge worn dj with price intact (but crossed out with reduced price written in by hand).
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SGD 27.57
What can be done about unemployment? A Socialist Labor Party statement
by Socialist Labor Party
Palo Alto, CA: Socialist Labor Party, 1970. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, paper toned else very good condition, 3.75x7 inches.
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SGD 16.54
Labor's role in the war on poverty ... an AFL-CIO guide
by American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Anti-Poverty Office
Washington DC: AFL-CIO, 1965. Pamphlet. 44p., wraps, very good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches.
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SGD 20.68
30 for 40
by Progressive Labor Party
Brooklyn: Progressive Labor Party, 1972. [20]p., worn wraps, newsprint toned, bottom corner torn (text not affected) else good condition. A Progressive Labor pamphlet. On the movement to get 40 hours' pay for 30 hours' work, as a way of solving unemployment.
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SGD 20.68
What's happening to our jobs
by Babson, Steve and Nancy Brigham
Somerville, MA: Popular Economics Press, 1976. 56 p., 8.5 x 11 inches, staplebound wraps, corner crease to rear cover, otherwise very good. Highly illustrated, with statistics, in question and answer format, economics from a political economy perspective made accessible to non-specialists.
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SGD 23.44
The financing of extended unemployment insurance benefits in the United States
by Malisoff, Harry
Kalamazoo, MI: The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1963. Pamphlet. xi, 52p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps lightly soiled else very good condition with list of available publications laid in. Unemployment insurance monographs.
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SGD 16.54
Digging for a new England, the co-operative farm for unemployed men
by Hoyland, John S
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. Hardcover. 224p., first edition, minor edge wear, corners slightly bumped else good condition.
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SGD 27.57
Digest: Federal social security and state unemployment insurance laws affecting members of the National coat and suit recovery board, revised to March 1, 1941
by National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board
New York: National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board, 1941. Pamphlet. 60p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, ILGWU stamp on title page, edges mildly toned else very good condition.
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SGD 20.68
War and Unemployment
by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Washington DC: the League, [193-?]. Four-panel brochure, 6.25x9.5 inches, handling wear, closed edge tears, paperclip mark on rear cover. Discusses the economic impact of WWI, illustrated with small maps.
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SGD 41.36
Women and Poverty: Staff Report
by UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
[Washington, DC]: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1974. First Edition. Quarto (25.75cm.); original black pictorial staplebound wrappers; v,[1],81pp.; text in double columns. Very light wear from handling, else Near Fine.
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SGD 34.47
