PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movement is a collaborative digitization project of the libraries and special collections departments of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the University of Central Florida (UCF). The materials for the digitization project are taken from the FAU Library's Socialist Series Pamphlets from the Special Collections pamphlet collection and the UCF Library's Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection.
The joint collection focuses on a wide range of political and rights issues and social movements. Spanning from the mid 19th century to the late 20th century, the pamphlets and monographs provide insight into the prevailing leftist and liberal views of the times from countries all around the world. In particular, the pamphlet collections offer a focused perspective on the thinking prevalent in the days leading up to World Wars I and II, the impact of the war efforts on general populations, the economic and social recovery after the wars, and perspectives on the turbulent times following.
The Socialist Series in the pamphlet collection of the Florida Atlantic University Library’s Special Collections includes over 1,000 late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pamphlets published by a wide variety of socialist and communist groups and their critics, both here and abroad. The pamphlets were among the book stock purchased as the library's opening day collection by Florida Atlantic University in the early 1960s from New York publisher and book dealer Burt Franklin. Publication dates run from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Topics discussed in the pamphlets include issues of workers' rights, race and gender, religion, world economics, capitalism, the demise of colonialism, and the emergence of trade unionism. The collection includes publications of the nascent labor union movement, as well as those of its detractors.
We invite you to explore the various writings to gain an understanding of historical economic, political, and social forces that have had an influence on today's societies. The other half of the PRISM collection is available through UCF's digital repository, STARS: Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900 - 1993Submissions from 1926
Dangerous tendencies in the workmen's compensation laws, Frederick Robertson Jones
What's what about Coolidge?, Jay Lovestone
World labor unity, Scott Nearing
The people's fight for coal and power, Stephen H. Raushenbush
The necessity of atheism, Percy Bysshe Shelly and Henry Stephens Salt
Zum Problem der Einheit der Internationalen Gewerkschaftsbewegung, Michail P. Tomskij
The General Council's Report to the 58th Annual Congress, Trade union congress council
Letters to Judd: An American Workingman, Upton Sinclair
The British Commonwealth in the post-war world, Alfred Eckhard, Sir Zimmern
Submissions from 1925
Dämonen der Wirtschaft im weissen Metall, W. Alumen
The work of the fascist government and the economic reconstruction of Italy, Giuseppe Bianchini and Luigi Villari
Russia and the British labour delegations report, British Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in Russia
The revolutionary labor amendment and the Constitution, Sampson R. Child
Russia and France on the road towards the world war, from the diplomatic correspondence of a Russian statesman, Aleksandr Petrovich Izvol'skii
Soviet Russia: An investigation by British women trade unionists, April to July 1925, M Quaile
What is industrial democracy, Norman Thomas
Submissions from 1924
So this is liberty, American Civil Liberties Union
Outline of labor problems in modern society, Paul Howard Douglas and William Aylott Orton
Adventures in brotherhood, Dorothy Giles
Errico Malatesta : the biography of an anarchist : a condensed sketch of Malatesta from the book written by Max Nettlau, Hippolyte Havel and Max Nettlau
Roads to freedom : a syllabus for discussion groups, Harry Wellington Laidler
Annual Report: the textile labour unions, Ahmedabad, S.A. Sarabhai
The challenge of war: An economic interpretation, Norman Thomas
Submissions from 1923
The federation of British industries
Report of the Empress Mills' welfare work, Nagpur, India) Empress Mills (Nagpur
Proceedings of the joint executive board meeting of the Coal Operators Association of the 5th and 9th districts of Illinois and the United Mine Workers of America district No. 12, Joint Executive Board of the Coal Operators' Association and the United Mine Workers of America
Proceedings of the joint executive board meeting of the Coal Operators Association of the 5th and 9th districts of Illinois and the United Mine Workers of America district No. 12, Joint Executive Board of the Coal Operators' Association and the United Mine Workers of America
Shipping, Labour Research Department
Labour & capital in Parliament, Labour Research Dept
Recent developments in the American labor movement; a syllabus for discussion groups, Harry W. Laidler
The government--strikebreaker, Jay Lovestone
The Church and working men, Lambert McKenna
The intellectual and the labor movement, George Henry Soule
Attempt by communists to seize the American labor movement, United Mine Workers of America
An outline of the American labor movement; a syllabus for study classes, Leo Wolman
Submissions from 1922
In non-union mines: the diary of a coal digger in central Pennsylvania, August-September, 1921, Powers Hapgood
Wages of farm labor, C.L. Holmes
Proceedings of the joint executive board meeting of the Coal Operators Association of the 5th and 9th districts of Illinois and the United Mine Workers of America district No. 12, Joint Executive Board of the Coal Operators' Association and the United Mine Workers of America
Die geschichtlichen Grundlagen des Sozialismus; eine Einführung in die materialistische Geschichtstheorie, Emil Kraus
The Gotha program, Karl Marx
Anarchism versus socialism, William C. Owen
Proceedings of the joint executive board meeting of the coal operators association of the 5th and 9th districts of Illinois and the united mine workers of America district 12., United Mine Workers of America. District No. 12.; Illinois Coal Operators Association.
Submissions from 1921
Protocol: Modifying Annex II to Part VIII of the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920)
Our fight is to help secure unrestricted liberty of free speech, American Civil Liberties Union
Proceedings of the thirteenth annual convention of the Metal Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor. Metal Trades Department
Zuruck zur Goldwahrung, Morik Cflfas
Convention Between the United Kingdom and Belgium Relative to Article 296 of the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 19191 (Enemy Debts), Great Britain and France
Amended Agreement Between the British and German Governments, no. 26, His Majesty's Stationery Office
Amended Agreement Between the British and German Governments, no. 27, His Majesty's Stationery Office
Convention Between the United Kingdom and France Relative to Article 296 of the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919 (Enemy Debts), His Majesty's Stationery Office
Mesholim, Morits Klayf
An appeal to the young, Peter Kropotkin
The mining crisis, its history and meaning to all workers, W. Livesey
Social control of industrial warfare, Walter Gordon Merritt
Japan and the "irrepressible expansion" doctrine, Thomas F. Millard
The A B C's of the twenty-one demands, Thomas Franklin Millard
Penal progress and prison democracy, Spencer, Jr. Miller
Il fascismo e la crisi italiana, Mario Missiroli
Report of the 29th annual conference, National government publication (Great Britain)
The blemish on trades unionism lawlessness, Reprinted from the New York Times by the American Anti-Boycott Association
Recent developments in trade-unionism, George Henry Soule
Kansas Handbook of Harvest Labor, H. Umberger and E.L. Rhoades
Submissions from 1920
Facts and figures of the automobile industry
Proceedings of the twelfth annual convention of the Metal Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor. Metal Trades Department
La tecnica industriale e la rivoluzione proletaria = Industrial technique and the proletarian revolution, G. Cannata
Welfare work in the steel industry, Charles L. Close
Frauenfrage und Menschenökonomie, Rudolf Goldscheid
Labor in a basic industry; studies in coal production-effects of the miner's environment upon his mode of thought-machinery as an aid to Americanization of the foreign born and to the social and economic advancement of mine workers, William Hard and Paul Roscoe Leach
Kautsky the Renegade and the Proletarian Revolution, Nicholai Lenin
Against the Plague of Nations ; An address to thinking people on the Polish question, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
Discours de Lénine à la Conférence provinciale du Parti communiste, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
The international council of trade and industrial unions, A. Lozovskii
The Russian republic, Cecil L'Estrange Malone
War profits of the patrioteers, Basil Maxwell Manly
Bolshevism in Russia and America, R. A. McGowan
Can Britain escape a revolution?, Scott Nearing
Karl Liebknecht: the man, his work, and message, William Paul
L'I.W.W. : la sua storia, struttura e metodi, Vincent St. John
Now it must be done, Irwin St. John Tucker
Zwölf Tage in Deutschland, Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Submissions from 1919
Mustervorträge für Völkerbundredner
Proceedings of the eleventh annual convention of the Metal Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor. Metal Trades Department
Vom Seligen Zensor, Fritz Grunbaum and Kurt Libesnv
Capital and labor, a fair deal; extracts from an address, Otto Hermann Kahn
Das neue Kommunistische Manifest: Moskau 1919, Heinrich Laufenberg
Proposed legislation on public policy and industrial warfare submitted to industrial conferees, Washington, D.C., League for Industrial Rights
The Soviets at work, Nikolai Lenin
Sozialdemokratie und kolonieen, Alfred. Mansfeld
Christian principles and industrial reconstruction, Francis John McConnell
Unemployment, National Catholic Welfare Conference
Profit-sharing; or, The worker's fair share, George W. Perkins
Causes underlying the social unrest, George E. Roberts
Briefe aus der Sowjet-Republik, Moskau, 1918, Jacques Sadoul
Der Sozialismus und die geistig Begabten, eine Erwiderung an Herrn Mallock [übertragen von Hedda Korsch]., Bernard Shaw
Köpfe in den Sand? : Die wirklichen Novemberverbrecher!, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands.
Bolsheviks and the Soviets, Albert Rhys Williams
Submissions from 1918
Proceedings of the tenth annual convention of the Metal Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor. Metal Trades Department
Le socialisme impérialiste dans l'Allemagne contemporaine, Charles Andler and Jean Jaurès
Socialism, David Paul Berenberg