Rhode Island Labor History Society: Publications

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click to enlarge	*A History of Rhode Island Working People* Paul Buhle, Scott Molloy, Gail Sansbury 88 pages. Dozens of photographs & essays capture the rich history of the state’s workers back to the top	$10.00
click to enlarge	*Working in the Blackstone River Valley* Douglas Reynolds, Marjory Myers 187 pages. Fourteen essays ranging over several centuries flesh out the life and labor around the nation’s "hardest working river" back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*Marxists, Militants, & Macaroni: The IWW in Providence’s Little Italy* Joseph W. Sullivan 103 pages. The Blistering story of Italian-Americans in the state around World War One back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must* Scott Molloy, Carl Gersuny, Robert Macieski 105 pages. Excerpts from the original labor pamphlets written by Seth Luther in Rhode Island in the 1830’s as well as two interpretive essays. back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*A Guide to the Historical Study of Rhode Island Working People* Scott Molloy, Eric Barden, Tim McMahon 40 pages. A selective bibliography of primary and secondary sources for research into blue collar life locally. Many graphics and photographs. back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*All Aboard: A History of Mass Transportation in Rhode Island* Scott Molloy 128 pages. A pictorial history of horse-cars, trolleys, busses, and the union operators who ran them. back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*The Fur and Leather Workers Union* Philip Foner 708 pages. A history of the only openly communist-controlled labor union in the country. A classic. back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*Images of American Radicalism* Paul Buhle, Ed Sullivan 462 pages. A hardcover coffee table gem that includes text and hundreds of images, some in startling color, that trace the radical impulse in the Unites States back to the top	$35.00
click to enlarge	*Labor & Community Militance in Rhode Island: A Special Issue of Radical History Review in 1978* Dedicated to the local labor scene. 192 pages. Includes nine essays and interviews by the state’s top labor historians. Limited Supply back to the top	$10.00
click to enlarge	*Labor’s Joke Book* Ed. Paul Buhle 64 pages. Numerous labor political cartoons back to the top	$3.00
click to enlarge	*New England’s Disharmony: The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution* Ed. Douglas Reynolds, Katherine Veins 146 pages. A collection of articles primarily about Rhode Island and Massachusetts back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*Work Hazards & Industrial Conflict* Carl Gersuny 162 pages. A hardcover that uses case studies from Massachusetts. A bargain! back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor* Ed. Paul Buhle 80 pages. A series of interviews with labor activists in the state reaching back to the 1890’s back to the top	$5.00
click to enlarge	*Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz* Paul Buhle, Mike Alewitz “A vibrant, full-color presentation of the vivid and powerfully themed mural artworks done by Alewitz, an outspoken labor activist since the 1940s. Presenting a strong political theme of worker's rights and solidarity, capturing the imagination with its outspoken message, and offered alongside a sensible commentary that places pieces in context to the labor and humanitarian issues they illustrated, Insurgent Images is a stunning collection of art created to serve showcase and advance the cause of worker and human rights.”— MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW back to the top	$15.00 Normally retails for $27.95
click to enlarge	*Encyclopedia of the American Left* Ed. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Dan Georgakas 928 pages. Softcover. All you'll ever need for quick reference back to the top	$25.00
click to enlarge	*Cultural Heritage and Land Management Plan for the Blackstone River Valley Corridor* Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission 84 pages. The plans and formation of a national two-state salute to their industrial heritage back to the top	$2.00
click to enlarge	*Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940* John S. Gilkeson, Jr. 380 pages. Hardcover analysis of the rise of middle-class society locally back to the top	$10.00
click to enlarge	*Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City* Debra E. Bernhardt, Rachel Bernstein 221 pages. "In this revealing book we hear the voices and see the faces of the ‘ordinary people’- sandhogs, teachers, garment workers et al.- who pulled off the extraordinary job of creating New Yawk" -- Studs Terkel back to the top	$10.00
click to enlarge	*We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber* Nick Salvatore 443 pages. Winner of the Bancroft Award. Hardcover portrayal of a black civil war veteran and activist in Worcester, MA back to the top	$12.00
click to enlarge	*Which Side Are You On? Trying To Be For Labor When It's On It's Back* Thomas Geoghegan 287 pages. Hardcover. Firsthand account of labor’s ups and downs in recent years back to the top	$5.00