Search Results: Auto Industry / UAW from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Dearborn, MI]: Henry Ford Trade School, [1934]. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's blue tape cloth-backed pictorial card wrappers; mixed pagination; illustrated throughout. Printed mimeograph. Light wear and a hint of spotting to extremities, spine faded, front corner bumped, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to first page, else Very Good or better. With a promotional booklet for the Henry Ford Trade School, a combined high school and trade school that trained boys as Ford employees.

New York: John Day Company, [1946]. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket printed in red and black; ix,[3],297pp. A few chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, none quite touching text, spine very slighty toned, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good overall. Important work on the business and managerial structure of General Motors by the Austrian-American political economist and professor of management.

Champaign, IL: University of Illinois / Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1949. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's blue mimeographed staplebound wrappers; [1],14ll. printed from typescript on rectos only. Spine edge very slightly sunned, else Near Fine. Early-ish conference inspired by the Human Relations movement of the early 1930s. The event was co-organized by the UAW and the University's Institute of Labor with "emphasis...placed on some of the psychological factors involved in dealing with people. In a sense, therefore, it was a new and experimental approach to the problems of union representatives" (from the foreword--text by Ross Stagner, a professional psychologist). Latter portion of the conference devoted primarily to problem solving, role-playing, interviewing, and behavior. Two copies of this title located in OCLC as of December, 2018, at Cornell and U. Illinois.

[Detroit: UAW Citizenship Legislative Department, 1967]. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; [32pp]; illus. Mild external toning, but a tight, Very Good or better copy. UAW President Reuther's testimony before a December, 1966 hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization. Nicely produced booklet, well-illustrated from photographs including portraits of Reuther and inner-city urban views. Unaccountably scarce, with no copies traced in commerce and not separately catalogued in OCLC (as of January 2022). Likely produced for internal distribution to UAW members and officers.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Tan cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 340pp. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Paul Jordan Smith - his book - Wessel Smitter - his Friend / W.H.S. / Feb. 1939." Mild toning to boards, with a couple of small spots of discoloration; jacket lightly edgeworn; a tight, VG copy overall. A worker's life and hard times in the Detroit auto industry, written by a one-time Ford employee. The inscribee, Paul Jordan-Smith (1885-1971), was a California journalist and editor who achieved notoriety in 1931 as the founder of the so-called "Disumbrationist School of Aesthetics" - an artistic hoax which took in a number of well-known art critics who responded positively to his exhibition of intentionally bad, and technically inept, paintings. HANNA 3285. COAN p.87.

Brooklyn: Progressive Labor Party, [1967]. Offprint. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Tan staple-bound, mimeographed sheets; [34pp]. Mild toning to text; Very Good or better. Offprint of an article which originally appeared in Progressive Labor, Feb/Mar 1967. There was also a Radical Education Project issue the same year, probably subsequent to this.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1938]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket, purple topstain; [6],374pp. Some general shelf wear, minor insect damage at bottom half inch of front jacket flap fold, some very light spotting and dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Uncommon novel about Harry Pickering, the heir to an automobile empire. Not in HANNA.

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, without jacket.

Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council, 1932. Two bifolium issues (22.75cm), printed in black on newsprint; 4pp. Slight toning to paper, else Fine. An unrecorded Michigan newspaper, produced (briefly, we assume) by the Muskegon Unemployed Council. In addition to exposing corruption and mismanagement within Muskegon's municipal government, the paper makes repeated invitations to unemployed workers to join the Communist Party and read the Daily Worker, suggesting the Unemployed Council was, if not an official CP front, then at least heavily infiltrated by CP members and fellow travelers. The first issue includes coverage of the Ford Hunger March, in which 5 protesting workers were shot to death by Ford Company guards outside the gates of the River Rouge Plant. Rare; we find no examples in the trade (July 2015), with one location only in OCLC (Library of Michigan); not found in the North American Union List of Serials (1939 ed).

Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council, 1932. Original bifolium issue (22.75cm), printed in black on newsprint; 4pp. Slight toning to paper, else Fine. An unrecorded Michigan newspaper, produced (briefly, we assume) by the Muskegon Unemployed Council. In addition to exposing corruption and mismanagement within Muskegon's municipal government, the paper makes repeated invitations to unemployed workers to join the Communist Party and read the Daily Worker, suggesting the Unemployed Council was, if not an official CP front, then at least heavily infiltrated by CP members and fellow travelers. This issue includes coverage of the Ford Hunger March, in which 5 protesting workers were shot to death by Ford Company guards outside the gates of the River Rouge Plant. Rare; we find no examples in the trade (July 2015), with one location only in OCLC (Library of Michigan); not found in the North American Union List of Serials (1939 ed).

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, [1957]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original two-toned (yellow and grey) simulated cloth in blue, white, and grey decorative dust jacket; [6],233pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few short closed tears and chipping, some foxing along folds, else Very Good and sound. Interrelated stories about nine men who work on an automobile assembly line.

Washington DC: Bureau of National Affairs, [1953 or 1954]. Offprint. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 931-951pp. Light wear and a hint of toning, else Very Good and sound. "Reprinted from Collective Bargaining Negotiations and Contracts" (upper cover).

N.p.: United Auto Workers - Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1951. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green staplebound card wrappers printed in double rule; 27pp.; illus. A hint of toning else Fine. Uncommon: Cornell only in OCLC as of June, 2020.

New York: The Dryden Press, Inc, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xii,143,[5]pp. Light wear to extremities, previous owners name and small notation X-ed out in marker on front endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), edgeworn, with losses to spine ends, corners, and upper edge, with several tears and creases; Good to Very Good. Analysis of the 1943 Detroit Race Riots, with detailed descriptions and chronology of events. The authors were both professors of Sociology at Wayne State University.

Washington DC: UAW International Affairs Department, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition.

New York: Automobile Manufacturers Association, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's white printed staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Fine condition. Typed letter signed by Harry A. Williams, Managing Editor of the Association, dated September 30, 1965, addressed to Garth L. Mangum of the National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress.

Washington DC: United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); disbound (as issued) pictorial self-wrappers; 7pp.; illus., text in double columns. Previous mail folds, rear cover postally used, wrappers rather unevenly toned, else Very Good overall. Chiefly devoted to the 1976 presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; [viii],280pp. With a contemporary inscription by the author on the front endpaper: "November, 1958 / For Mr. Fee, remembering the old days at Mountain Lakes. Eldorous L. "Pete" Dayton." Fine in a Very Good+ to Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some rubbing to covers. Biography of Walter Reuther (1907-1970), a significant union leader with the United Auto Workers and AFL-CIO.