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Unemployed struggles 1919-1936; my life and struggles amongst the unemployed
by Hannington, Wal
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. Hardcover. xii, 328p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inch red cloth boards, dust jacket spine a bit sunned, dust jacket slightly yellowed, else very good condition.
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$15.00
The Great Slump; Capitalism in Crisis 1929-1933
by Rees, Goronwy
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 310p., illustrated with numerous photoportraits of the political and economic elite, hardbound in openweave black cloth boards lettered white and bright yellow, and enclosed in the glossy black dust jacket. A very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Urbane judgments, sensible stuff.
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$15.00
Attention citizens
by Socialist Party
Milwaukee, WI: Socialist Party, 1939. Pamphlet. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet mimeographed on one side folded to make a 4.25x5.5 inch brochure. On the fight for unemployment benefits.
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$18.00
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Unemployment, Inflation Squeeze Workers [Handbill]
Minneapolis: The American Federation of Anarchists, nd. Single sheet, printed both sides, 8.5x14 inches, two fold creases else very good condition. Not dated, but mentions that unemployment in the U.S. is "the highest since 1962". None found in OCLC as of 10/2020.
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$30.00
Don't let our workers starve!
by Congress of Industrial Organizations. Political Action Committee
New York: CIO Political Action Committee, 1945. Pamphlet. Small four panel brochure, 4x5.25 inches. Issued to support the Kilgore Bill for unemployment insurance for all during the demobilization at the end of World War II.
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$20.00
Getting your California unemployment insurance benefits
San Francisco: Peoples Law School, 1975. 28p., staplebound wraps, 7x8.5 inches, front wrap lightly foxed along one edge, touch of rust to staples else good fourth edition.
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$12.00
The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: lessons from the ancient forest struggle of the Pacific Northwest
by FOSTER, John Bellamy
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 34pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better.
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$25.00
What price relief
by Socialist Party
New York: Socialist Party, 1935. Six panel brochure, lightly tone else very good condition, 4x9 inches. SP attack on Mayor LaGuardia for implementing a sales tax, demands for higher wages & protections for WPA workers.
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$25.00
Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment
by GOURVITCH, Alexander
Philadelphia: Work Projects Administration, National Research Project, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo (25.5cm.); original blue card wrappers; xiii,[1],252pp. Light wear and foxing to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Report No. G-6.
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$35.00
Out of a Job
by [SOCIALISM] WEITZ, Louis
New York: Louis Weitz, [1915]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 59pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and toned, spine lettering partly effaced, else Near Very Good, internally near fine. "Peoples Educational Society" - upper cover. Socialist study of unemployment. A copy would be sent to Jack London in Honolulu, prompting him to write to Weitz: "I think it is a good, clean, straight-from-the-shoulder presentation of...
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$75.00
Federal Manpower Policies and Programs to Combat Unemployment
by LEVITAN, Sar A
Kalamazoo: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1964. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 41pp. Fine, unworn copy. List of publications laid in.
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$25.00
The Negro and Employment Opportunities in the South: Atlanta. The third of a series of Employment Studies in Southern Cities
by SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL
[Atlanta: Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations, 1962]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm.); publisher's tan decorative staplebound wrappers; 21pp. Fine condition.
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$40.00
Out of Work: The first century of unemployment in Massachusetts
by KEYSSAR, Alexander
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xviii,469pages.. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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$13.24
Precarious & Service Workers Assembly
Oakland and San Francisco: [Workers Against Work?], 2012. Cards. 3.5x2 inch business card, calling for service sector workers, sex workers, nannies, the unemployed, part-time workers and other precarious groups to a bi-weekly meeting held in San Francisco and Oakland, beginning in the early spring of 2012.
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$12.00
Abolish Involuntary Poverty: A National Program
by [SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY WORKSHOP]
San Francisco: Solutions to Poverty Workshop, 1991. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound pamphlet; photostatically reproduced from typescript; 42pp. Fine, unmarked copy. Report of a workshop held at the 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco, April 1990 to May 1991.
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$40.00
The Rebel Worker, bulletin 5; Vote no on Jarvis-Gann (Proposition 13), Vote yes on 8, June 6 - Save Our Services, Jobs
Oakland, CA: Rebel Worker Organization, 1978. Pamphlet. [4p.], 8.5x14 inch sheet, folded in half, covers slightly toned, else in very good condition.
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$18.00
The Right to Work
by [GREAT DEPRESSION] [WPA] ANDERSON, Nels
New York: Modern Age Books, 1938. First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers w/ pictorial dustjacket; 152p; illus. A clean, tight copy in the uncommon pictorial jacket, lightly rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Extensively illustrated with halftones, uncredited but clearly of WPA/FSA lineage. An explication and defense of federal work-relief programs, written at the height of the Depression by the famous hobo sociologist Nels Anderson (who also wrote under the pseudonym "Dean Stiff").
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$45.00
Joukkovoima: työttömyysaiheinen työväen romaani
by Rutanen, Mikael
Worcester, MA: Amerikan Suomalaisten Sosialististen Kustannusliikkeiden Liitto, 1931. Paperback. 156p. paperback, old label on rear cover, front cover art slightly faint, title penned on blank spine. Proletarian novel published by the Finnish immigrant socialist organization. The author emigrated from the US to Soviet Karelia in 1931, only to die in the following year.
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$50.00
The Employment Act Past and Future: A Tenth Anniversary Symposium
by COLM, Gerhard, ed
Washington DC: National Planning Association, [1956]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original blue and white decorative card wrappers; xii,203pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled, lighter portions of spine toned, else Very Good or better. Special Report no. 41.
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$30.00
The Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 10 no. 4, Winter 1978
by URPE
New York: Union for Radical Political Economics, 1978. Magazine. 76p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, wraps lightly worn, top edge and pp73-76 foxed else good condition.
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$12.00
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Hello Buddy [2 volumes, together with] Buddies, Then and Now. Allegiance
[New York?]: [Servicemen's Magazine?], 1943. Pamphlet. 3 volumes, wraps. 5.25 x 4 to 6 x 4.25 in. Covers soiled and worn; leaves chipped and toned. Good only. Pamphlets sold by disabled and/or unemployed military veterans. Consist mostly of comics and entertaining vignettes that poke fun at military life. The "Buddies, then and now" volume has a 1927 copyright by A.W. Bryce. The Hello Buddy pamphlets are undated, but one (the non-Christmas/New Year's issue) references Hitler, World War 2, the Women's...
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$35.00
Workers of the neighborhood - stop and think, are you unemployed? Is your job secured? Are you protected against old age and sickness? How can we improve our life? Unemployment and social insurance would answer all these problems. Come to the meeting of Branch 656, International Workers Order, hear George Powers...
by International Workers Order
[New York]: International Workers Order, Branch 645, 1935. Leaflet, printed on one side only, text and illustrated, toned, ink date in lower margin, small ink stains else good condition, 8.5x11 inches.
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$45.00
The menace of unemployment. Public works the solution - old-age pensions provided. Outlines of a system to end unemployment, assure perpetual prosperity, build highways, irrigation systems etc. Without taxation, and ultimately abolish existing taxes
by Cummings, John Raymond
[Chicago?]: the author, 1921. Pamphlet. 44p., wraps. 7.25 x 3.75 in. Ink stamp on front cover: "Not copyrighted." Small tear on fore-edge of rear cover, otherwise Very Good. The author aims to show how to alleviate unemployment, engage in massive public works projects, and end taxes in the United States. Addresses economic conditions after World War I. The author wrote several works espousing his theories on money and inflation (which reviewers of the time noted as impractical but entertaining to read)....
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$120.00
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Unemployment ... why? [brochure]
by Socialist Labor Party
New York: Socialist Labor Party, 1957. Four panel brochure, 6x8.75 inches, paper browned, lightly edgeworn, date penciled on rear wrap else good condition.
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$15.00
Unemployment Insurance and Relief in Germany
by NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD
New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1932 [but 1933?]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xvi,107pp.; tables and charts throughout. Minor rubbing to boards, short closed tear to last two leaves, not affecting text. Very Good and sound. Issued a year before Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany.
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$30.00
