Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit 1912-1950
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, without jacket. More
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, without jacket. More
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. More
Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council, 1932. 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..... More
Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council, 1932. 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..... More
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. Biography of Walter Reuther (1907-1970), a significant union leader with the United Auto Workers and AFL-CIO. 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..... More
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..... More
[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..... More
New York: The Dryden Press, Inc., 1943. First Edition. 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. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xii,143,[5]pp. Light..... More
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..... More
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..... More
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois / Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1949. First Edition. 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..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. 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..... More
[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..... More
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. More
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..... More
Washington DC: UAW International Affairs Department, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition. More
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). More
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..... More