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Archive of Internal and Public Documents of the Greater Pittsburgh Improvement League (Formerly...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] [GREATER PITTSBURGH IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE] SALES, Manford (Pres.)

Archive of Internal and Public Documents of the Greater Pittsburgh Improvement League (Formerly the East Liberty and Homewood League for Comunity Improvement), 1952-59

[Pittsburgh: 1950s]. FILE-LEVEL INVENTORY: 1. Photographs (3). Three vintage silver-gelatin prints, two credited on versos to Harris Studio, each 8" x 10" or reverse. Worn, with marginal tears and creases; just Good. 2. Printed materials (10). Ten discrete documents, several present in multiples. Includes letterhead, form letters, event tickets, and..... More

Price: $4,500.00

Hobo Press / The Bowery News. The Voice of Society's Basement. No. 63 (July 1959). Harry Baronian

Baronian, Harry (ed)

Hobo Press / The Bowery News. The Voice of Society's Basement. No. 63 (July 1959)

New York: The Bowery News Co., 1959. First Edition. Tabloid, ca 17-1/2" x 12"; 12pp. Horizontal fold (as issued); printed on blue paper; bit of sun-fading at folded edge, else a rather fresh, well-preserved copy, VG or better. Contributions from "Buffalo Chuck," "Hobo Buck and Margie," "Old Timer J.N.," and..... More

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Toward Social Security. An Explanation of the Social Security Act and a Survey of the Larger...

BURNS, Eveline M.

Toward Social Security. An Explanation of the Social Security Act and a Survey of the Larger Issues

New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw Hill, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 269pp. Very Good, unmarked copy; lacking the dustwrapper. Burns (1900-1984) was a British economist and professor of Social Work at Columbia University. More

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Demonstrate April 26 - Washington, DC - Kennedy Stadium 1 PM. CHICAGO MOBILIZATION FOR MARCH ON...

[CHICAGO MOBILIZATION FOR MARCH ON WASHINGTON]

Demonstrate April 26 - Washington, DC - Kennedy Stadium 1 PM

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. More

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The Employment Act Past and Future: A Tenth Anniversary Symposium. Gerhard COLM, ed

COLM, Gerhard, ed.

The Employment Act Past and Future: A Tenth Anniversary Symposium

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. More

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The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: lessons from the ancient forest struggle of the...

FOSTER, John Bellamy

The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: lessons from the ancient forest struggle of the Pacific Northwest

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 34pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. More

Price: $25.00

Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment. Alexander GOURVITCH

GOURVITCH, Alexander

Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment

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. More

Price: $35.00

The Right to Work. GREAT DEPRESSION, Nels ANDERSON, WPA

[GREAT DEPRESSION] [WPA] ANDERSON, Nels

The Right to Work

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..... More

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Federal Manpower Policies and Programs to Combat Unemployment. Sar A. LEVITAN

LEVITAN, Sar A.

Federal Manpower Policies and Programs to Combat Unemployment

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. More

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Taxing Unearned Income. Alfred Baker LEWIS

LEWIS, Alfred Baker

Taxing Unearned Income

[Boston: Socialist Party of Massachusetts, ca 1932]. 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 leaflet to be from an..... More

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Unemployment and the Mechanical Man [drop title]. James H. MAURER

MAURER, James H.

Unemployment and the Mechanical Man [drop title]

[Boston: Socialist Party of Massachusetts, ca 1932]. Undated, but probably issued for the 1932 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, with Alfred Baker Lewis on the Socialist ticket. Text by Norman Thomas's Vice Presidential candidate. DIfferent printings of this text appeared in varying formats to support socialist candidates in a number of state..... More

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Christmas Story. H. L. MENCKEN, Illust Bill Crawford

MENCKEN, H. L.; Bill Crawford, Illust.

Christmas Story

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (17.5cm); blue publisher's cloth w/ tipped-on color illust., stamped in gilt on spine, in color pictorial dustwrapper; 31pp. Minor soiling and dampstains to boards and interior; mild handling wear; toning to dustwrapper extremities and spine, chipping at crown/heel of..... More

Price: $50.00

Unemployment Insurance and Relief in Germany. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD

Unemployment Insurance and Relief in Germany

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..... More

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Coin Collection Can] Support WPA National Job March to Washington. ORGANIZED LABOR, WORKS PROJECT...

[ORGANIZED LABOR] WORKS PROJECT ADMINISTRATION

[Coin Collection Can] Support WPA National Job March to Washington

Detroit: [1937]. Coin collection can to raise funds for the Job March on Washington held in 1937 and organized by the Workers Alliance after cuts were made to the WPA budget. Only 2500 marchers made it to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, this empty can (numbered in manuscript "no. 113")..... More

Price: $250.00

The Fight for Social Security. Henri RAYNAUD

RAYNAUD, Henri

The Fight for Social Security

London: W.F.T.U. Publications, [1952]. First U.K. Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 42pp. Light external soil and wear; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good. More

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Out of a Job? SOCIALISM, Louis WEITZ

[SOCIALISM] WEITZ, Louis

Out of a Job?

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..... More

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Abolish Involuntary Poverty: A National Program. SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY WORKSHOP

[SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY WORKSHOP]

Abolish Involuntary Poverty: A National Program

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. More

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The Negro and Employment Opportunities in the South: Atlanta. The third of a series of Employment...

SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL

The Negro and Employment Opportunities in the South: Atlanta. The third of a series of Employment Studies in Southern Cities

[Atlanta: Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations, 1962]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm.); publisher's tan decorative staplebound wrappers; 21pp. Fine condition. More

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The Negro and Employment Opportunities in the South: Chattanooga. SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL

SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL

The Negro and Employment Opportunities in the South: Chattanooga

[Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1962]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue staplebound card wrappers; 16pp. Fine condition. "The second of a series of Employment Studies in Southern Cities." More

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The Negro and Employment Opportunities in the South: Houston. SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL

SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL

The Negro and Employment Opportunities in the South: Houston

[Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1961]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's grey staplebound card wrappers; 22pp. Fine condition. "The first of a series of Employment Studies in Southern Cities." More

Price: $40.00

Women and Poverty: Staff Report. UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Women and Poverty: Staff Report

[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. More

Price: $25.00

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