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  • WOBBLY: The Rough-And-Tumble Story of an American Radical by Chaplin, Ralph (1887-1961)
    Chaplin, Ralph (1887-1961)
    WOBBLY: The Rough-And-Tumble Story of an American Radical

    Edition: First printing.

    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1948). Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this American activist and author. "For two years Chaplin worked in the strike committee with Mother Jones for the bloody Kanawha County, West Virginia strike of coal miners in 1912-13. These influences led him to write a number of labor oriented poems, one of which became the words for the union anthem, 'Solidarity Forever'. In 1917 Chaplin and some 100 other Wobblies were rounded up, convicted, and jailed under the Espionage Act of 1917 for conspiring to hinder the draft and encourage desertion. He wrote 'Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems' while serving four years of a 20-year sentence. Chaplin was very disillusioned by the aftermath of…

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    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1948). Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this American activist and author. "For two years Chaplin worked in the strike committee with Mother Jones for the bloody Kanawha County, West Virginia strike of coal miners in 1912-13. These influences led him to write a number of labor oriented poems, one of which became the words for the union anthem, 'Solidarity Forever'. In 1917 Chaplin and some 100 other Wobblies were rounded up, convicted, and jailed under the Espionage Act of 1917 for conspiring to hinder the draft and encourage desertion. He wrote 'Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems' while serving four years of a 20-year sentence. Chaplin was very disillusioned by the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the evolution of the Soviet state and international communism but he maintained his involvement with the IWW, serving in Chicago as editor of its newspaper, the Industrial Worker, from 1932 to 1936." (Wikipedia) vi, 435 pp plus 10 pp of photographs.

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    Condition: Near fine in black cloth with red title label on spine (some rubbing to lettering on spine)

    Book ID: 90329
    Keywords: activists, Biography - autobiography - memoirs, espionage act, mother jones, prison, unions
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  • SWEET THUNDER. by Doig, Ivan.
    Doig, Ivan.
    SWEET THUNDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate), hardcover first edition - Set in 1920s Butte, Montana, where Morrie Morgan has been drawn back by a quirky bequest which leads to his becoming the editor of 'The Thunder' the fledging union newspaper daring to stand up to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. SIGNED on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487347.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small peeled spot on back cover of dj)

    Book ID: 89742
    Keywords: anaconda, copper mining, Historical Fiction, montana, unions, western fiction
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  • SWEET THUNDER. by Doig, Ivan.
    Doig, Ivan.
    SWEET THUNDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1920s Butte, Montana, where Morrie Morgan has been drawn back by a quirky bequest which leads to his becoming the editor of 'The Thunder' the fledging union newspaper daring to stand up to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487347.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (2 peeled spots on dj from sticker removal)

    Book ID: 89741
    Keywords: anaconda, copper mining, Historical Fiction, montana, unions, western fiction
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  • LA HUELGA DE LOS OBREROS DE LA CARNE CONTRA LA HORMEL EN AUSTIN, MINNESOTA, 1985-86. by Halstead, Fred
    Halstead, Fred
    LA HUELGA DE LOS OBREROS DE LA CARNE CONTRA LA HORMEL EN AUSTIN, MINNESOTA, 1985-86.

    Edition: First printing, a slim pamphlet.

    New York: Pathfinder Press, (1986). First edition - Text in Spanish. Illustrated with photographs. Includes a brief chronology. 53 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 0-873484908.

    Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 66120
    Keywords: Ephemera, hormel, labor relation, meat packers, strike, unions
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  • FOLLY. by Brady, Maureen.
    Brady, Maureen.
    FOLLY.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, (1982). First edition - The author's second novel - " Set in a Carolina mill town, the novel blends the story of a union organising strike by Black and white working-class women who sew in the local factory with the personal struggles of their daily lives." 197 pp. ISBN: 0-895940906.

    Condition: Very good (some sunning to the spine)

    Book ID: 64958
    Keywords: feminist, gay and lesbian, unions, Women Authors
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