United Auto Workers (8 results)

A Stiff Paper Cover. Condition: Good. 1967 detroit converntion.

Our Days Together at Buick City is a heartfelt tribute to the workers, families, and community connected to Buicks legendary Buick City manufacturing complex in Flint, Michigan. Through memories, photographs, and personal stories, the book captures the pride, friendships, hard work, and everyday experiences shared by generations who helped shape one of Americas most iconic automotive plants. The book focuses on the history and memories of Buick City and the workers connected to Buick manufacturing and has become a collectible piece of Flint and automotive history. Book appears unread and in as new (AN) condition, all 170 pages are pristine, intact, and free of any markings. The blue colored covers and binding are clean and well-preserved, and also as new (AN) condition. Perfect for automotive enthusiasts, former GM employees, labor history readers, and anyone connected to the proud legacy of Buick City and Flint manufacturing history.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pamphlet. First Printing. 9 x 5 1/2 pages. Staple bound with 52 pages. VERY GOOD. All corners pointed but for bottom right slight curl. Binding firm and tight without stress creasing. Without tears, creases, or chips. With tanning from age near cover eddges. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

4p, 11 x 15.5 inches, folded tabloid, closed tear at right edge of the fold. Part of 1976 UAW contract effort that took a harder line than the union's leadership; affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Softcover in good condition with illustrated wrapper. Some wear and rubbing to the edges of the wrapper with browning along the edges and some scuffing to the covers. Page edges are a little browned. Small blue dot on lower edges of the pages. 139 pages with illustrations and index of authors. A scarce work featuring a collection of quotes on work, labor, and unions taken from individuals varying from Aristotle to Mother Jones to E. Zola.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of The Many and the Few, from the personal collection of former President of the United Auto Workers, Leonard Woodcock. (illustrator). First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, xv, 293pp. Maroon cloth, title in silver on front cover and spine. Stated "Second printing, March 1947" on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to corners and spine, faint offsetting to endpapers. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price to front flap, sunned spine with chipping to edges, short closed tear to front cover repaired with archival glue, a very good example. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Includes a UAW - CIO Convention Souvenir sticker affixed to front free endpaper, commemorating the 1947 convention. Leonard Woodcock (1911-2001) was the President of the United Auto Workers and the first United States Ambassador to China. Woodcock dropped out of college in 1933 and began working as a machine assembler in Detroit. As manufacturing unions grew, he joined the United Auto Workers. After the tragic airplane accident resulting in the death of former UAW president Walter Reuther, Woodcock was selected to lead, and would remain president of the union from 1970 through 1977. Due to his progressive ideals, Woodcock was listed #9 on Nixon's Enemies List, with the notation "No comments necessary.". Signed.

Paperback original. Condition: Near fine. Inscribed to the former President of the United Auto Workers, the new edition of The Legend of Henry Ford by Keith Sward. (illustrator). Later Printing. Octavo, xviii, 550pp. Original soft cover, title in black on front cover and spine. Lacking the first edition statemen and features a new preface by William Greenleaf. Solid text block, sunned spine, light wear and creasing to corners, mild shelf wear. A bright example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "From the Bearer, Ray Goodman + the Author, Keith Sward / To Leonard Woodcock who helped to right some of the wrongs in the house that Ford built. August, 1978." Leonard Woodcock (1911-2001) was the President of the United Auto Workers and the first United States Ambassador to China. Woodcock dropped out of college in 1933 and began working as a machine assembler in Detroit. As manufacturing unions grew, he joined the United Auto Workers. After the tragic airplane accident resulting in the death of former UAW president Walter Reuther, Woodcock was selected to lead, and would remain president of the union from 1970 through 1977. Due to his progressive ideals, Woodcock was listed #9 on Nixon's Enemies List, with the notation "No comments necessary.". Signed.