LABOR FACT BOOKS II (1934), III (1936) & IV (1938). Left-wing unions & movements
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LABOR FACT BOOKS II (1934), III (1936) & IV (1938). Left-wing unions & movements. LABOR FACT BOOK IV (1938). LABOR FACT BOOK II (1934). LABOR FACT BOOK II (1934) LABOR FACT BOOK III (1936) LABOR FACT BOOK IV (1938) VG. See condition description. Sold as is. Shipped USPS Media Mail. Insurance extra at cost with request. The three volumes are excellent reference materials for the Great Depression years, including the industrial unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, the split in the American Federation of Labor over industrial unionism and the launching of the Committee on Industrial Organization and subsequent Congress on Industrial Organization. The books also include descriptions of social movements activities, like the International Labor Defense and Scottsboro 'Boys' defense. "The Labor Research Association was founded in 1927 by Grace Hutchins, Anna Rochester, and Robert Dunn (LRA's director from 1927-1975) along with Solon DeLeon and Alexander Trachtenberg. Hutchins was the principal writer on wage-earning women for the Communist Party of the United States of America; Rochester, a Marxist historian, economist, and Communist Party member, and Hutchins' lifelong companion. The LRA was politically close to the CPUSA and its purpose was to "conduct investigations and studies of social, economic, and political questions in the interest of the labor movement.The principal activities of the LRA have been research, consulting, and the publication of books, pamphlets, articles, and serials on issues of concern to the labor movement. The seventeen volumes of the Labor Fact Book, published between 1931 and 1965, were widely circulated reference books." (From the NYU Tamiment Library)
