[Detroit]: Committee for Maurice Sugar for Judge of Recorder's Court, 1935. First Edition. Successful defense speech by labor attorney Maurice Sugar, best known for serving as General Counsel to the United Auto Workers Union, 1937-1946. In 1934, James Victory, an African-American WW1 veteran and car washer was accused of slashing..... More
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, without jacket. More
![Technological Change & Employment in the Automotive Industry [Typed Letter, Signed, Bound in]....](/pictures/medium/49063.jpg?v=1590032644)
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
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American..... More
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American..... 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: New Outlook Publishers, 1970. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 62pp. Covers and text a bit wrinkled, still a clean, VG copy. Study jointly prepared by the Auto and Economics Commissions of the Communist Party USA. More
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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
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm); maroon cloth boards with paper spine and cover labels; dustjacket; portrait frontispiece; 272pp. Mild lean to spine; spine lable a shade age-darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped but with mild overall..... More
[Dearborn, MI]: Henry Ford Trade School, [1937]. Revised Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's blue tape cloth-backed pictorial card wrappers; mixed pagination; illus. throughout, printed mimeograph. Light wear and a hint of spotting to extremities, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to first page, else Near Fine. More
New York: Blue Heron Press, 1955. First Edition. Octavo. Brown cloth; dustjacket; 63pp. Tiny scuff to base of front board; spine ends lightly rubbed; a tight, Near Fine copy in the original Rockwell Kent dustwrapper, toned on spine and with a few nicks to extremities; Very Good. Prospectus laid in..... 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
![Cover title] Summary of Conference on "Human Relations" for United Auto Workers - AFL Region 8,...](/pictures/medium/43143.jpg?v=1554848333)
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
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
[Detroit: UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department; ca 1952]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 24pp. Very Good, free of markings or significant wear. Review of fair employment practices at the federal, state, and municipal level. At this time (ca 1952, dated from contents) only nine U.S. states and..... More
Washington DC: UAW International Affairs Department, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition. More
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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
