Trade Unions and Labour History

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: The Viking Press, 1954 Fourth Printing. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Pall Mall Press, 1969 Translated by Robert Rowland.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946 Study of the Marxist view of human nature in general, in its relation to history and under the conditions of existing civilization. Sociologist R.N. Rapoport's copy with his signature on the fep.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1991 International terrorism is a present danger to the United States and other democracies, and must be viewed as a unique form of warfare. Working from this premise, authors Harold Vetter and Gary Perlstein offer readers a provocative and timely introduction to terrorism.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: New York University Press, 1978 Biograpohical and critical study of the author most famous for the novel Studs Lonigan. Farrell was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a large Irish-American family, which included siblings Earl, Joseph, Helen, John, and Mary. In addition there were several other siblings who died in childbirth, as well as one who died from the influenza epidemic in 1917. He attended Mt. Carmel High School (then known as St. Cyril) with future Egyptologist Richard Anthony Parker, and later the University of Chicago. He began writing when he was 21 years old. A novelist, journalist, and short story writer known for his realistic portraits of the working class South Side Irish, James T. Farrell based his writing on his own experiences. He tried to show how people's destinies are shaped by the era and the environment in which they live. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and later into a television miniseries in 1979. The trilogy was voted number 29 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. Farrell was an avid baseball fan and well versed in the statistics of the game. During one lecture tour about 1950 where he lectured at several universities in Missouri and Colorado he was as apt to tell baseball tales as he was to talk about his fictional works. On this tour Farrell was accompanied by his young son Kevin, (later Dr. Kevin J. Farrell), his sister Mary Farrell Holland, and his nephew, Sean F. Holland. Farrell was also active in Trotskyist politics and joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). He came to agree with Albert Goldman and Felix Morrow's criticisms of the SWP and Fourth International leaderships. With Goldman, he left the group in 1946 to join the Workers Party. Within the Workers Party, Goldman and Farrell worked closely. In 1948, they developed criticisms of its policies, claiming that the party should support the Marshall Plan and also Norman Thomas' presidential candidacy. Having come to believe that only capitalism could defeat Stalinism, they left, to join the Socialist Party of America. In the late 1960's, disenchanted with the political "center", while impressed with the SWP's involvement in the Civil Rights and US Anti-Vietnam War movements, he reestablished contact with his former comrades of two decades earlier. He attended one of more SWP-sponsored Militant Forum events (probably in NYC), but never rejoined the Trotskyist movement. Some fading to boards.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Martin Robertson, 1977 First Edition. Cloth. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Maurice Temple Smith, 1977 The Grunwick dispute over trade union recognition at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in North London was controversial in the late 1970s. The dispute began in the summer of 1976 when a part of the largely female and Asian workforce was unhappy about wages and work conditions. The Anglo-Indian employer was George Ward, who did not believe the workers had legitimate grievances. About a third of the worker force subsequently went on strike and joined the APEX union and were then sacked by Ward, who did not want to recognise the union. The staff were led by Mrs Jayaben Desai, whose membership of the union, along with others', was later suspended following a hunger strike outside TUC headquarters in November 1977.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1977 A moving and explosive account of how Hanoi won the war. There was not just one war, however, and in taking the reader from the break up of French Indo-China thirty years before, to the final days before the Fall of Saigon, Denis Warner details the multiplicity of wars and changes in the international scene.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1949 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Epworth Press, 1947 Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: CND, 1982 The joys of a nuclear war.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Cambridge University Press, 1965 Front cover grubby. Chip to front cover. Cambridge University Department of Applied Economics; Occasional papers; No. 4.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957 The book is concerned with the developing political character of the recently emerged nation of India. In view of the mounting importance of India in world affairs, the reader needs to know as much as he can about the political processes operating within. The author provides with an insight into the way India sought to work out a political system which in some manner responds to the great variety of interests, classes, and loyalties of its vast population, and the same time preserves the essential basis of national unity.The author makes fruitful use of recent advances in the comparative study of political systems and parties in different countries. This interesting development opens up new opportunities for the construction of theory in the field. On the basis of the data collected in India, he formulates a number of hypotheses about the stability of political parties under the conditions existing there. Some fading to spine.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Calder & Boyars, 1971 First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1975 Traces the connections of British workers with Europe at a time when internationalism was emerging as a component of workers' class-conciousness.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., 1908 American Edition of an essay originally read by Wells to the Fabian Society in December 1905. Unwearable boots are cited as an example of the pointless suffering brought about by a system in which capital is privately owned. This essay is especially notable for the manner in which Well's uses his childhood view of the world from a basement: Well's seemed destined, in these first fifteen years of his life, to spend much of his time underground, in dark, dismal surroundings. Raised in an underground kitchen, from which, through the grating, he could see only the feet of passers by, he lodged in cellars or garrets, dim, closed in, filled with shadows, away from the sun, in all of the apprentice homes in which he was forced to stay. Slight knick to spine.. First US Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Basic Books, 1976 First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Virago Press, 1985 (1869-1940) anarchist and feminist, born in Lithuania, who campaigned throughout America and Europe for political and sexual freedom from the conventions of capitalist society. An effective propagandist, Goldman was vilified in the United States as ‘Red Emma’, and was deported from there 1917 after terms in gaol for incitement to riot, suspected involvement in the assassination of President McKinley, distributing birth control information, and activities against conscription. After returning to Russia 1919 Goldman became disillusioned with the oppression and persecution following the Russian Revolution, leaving the country in 1921, but continued to support anarchist causes through her writing and campaigning, dying in Canada whilst on a tour in support of Spanish anarchists in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: The Devin-Adair Company, 1960 "The shocking story of how a People's Republic was born within 90 miles of our United States border". Written by a former communist.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971 Important study on the effects of industrialisation in the UK. First published in 1816.. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: The Rand School of Social Science, 1963 Some wear to covers.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1969 Second Printing. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1982 An unread copy. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1951 Edited by Joseph Shister. Important book in Labour history. Corners rubbed.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Horizon Press, 1957 An account of Lamont's legal fight against McCarthyism, primarily with legal documents and some commentary by Wittenberg. Corliss Lamont was a teacher of philosophy at Columbia University, graduate of Harvard and the editor of the Harvard Crimson Leftist. Introduction by Horace M. Kallen.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1924 Foreword By Wesley C. Mitchell.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1917 Wraps worn and marked.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1972 Edited with introduction by Robin Blackburn. Regis Debray's essays had as much impact on the revolutionary movement in Latin America, as those of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Topics in the table of contents: The Labor Movement; Socialism; The University Settlements; University Extension; The Social Work of the Church; Charity and Philnthropy; Moral and Educational Progress. An important book in social history. Rear hinge cracked. Rare in any condition.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967 Second Impression. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Workers Power, 1984 First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: HMSO, 1965 Staples rusted.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971 The increasing influence of the Ultra-left on the Labour Party through the 1960s and 1970s.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1968. Account of the Cuban revolution and its aftermath told through the opinions of Cuban workers.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968 First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Croom Helm, 1974 An examination of state intervention in British industry.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Croom Helm, 1975 An examination of state intervention in British industry.. Second Printing. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Brighton: Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 1973 A study of Chile under the leadership of a Marxist government which took power through the democratic system in 1970, and an analysis of how that government pursued a classic Communist formula of political power through the economics of state ownership.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1950 Study of German political refugees in the United States. Rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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