William Z. Foster (born William Edward Foster; February 25, 1881 – September 1, 1961) was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. He was previously a member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, leading the drive to organize packinghouse industry workers during World War I and the steel strike of 1919. (From Wikipedia) More about William Z. Foster:
Associated authors:
- Dennis, Eugene, 1905-1961
- Bittelman, Alex, 1890-1982
- Allen, James S.
- Weinstone, William W. (William Wolf), 1897-1985
- Browder, Earl, 1891-1973
- Cannon, James Patrick, 1890-1974
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Books by William Z. Foster Books about William Z. Foster: Filed under: Foster, William Z., 1881-1961 More Pages From a Worker's Life (Occasional paper - American Institute for Marxist Studies #32; 1979), by William Z. Foster, ed. by Arthur Zipser (multiple formats at archive.org) W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster-Ford: The Candidates of the Working Youth (New York: Youth Publishers, 1932) (multiple formats at archive.org) W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org) Futility of Fosterism (Winnipeg: One Big Union Bulletin, ca. 1923), by Ben Legere (multiple formats at archive.org) Keynes, Foster and Marx (2 volumes; Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Rebels and Renegades (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Max Nomad (page images at HathiTrust)
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Books by William Z. Foster: Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Acceptance Speeches: William Z. Foster, Candidate for President, and Benjamin Gitlow, Candidate for Vice-President of the Workers (Communist) Party (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1928), also by Benjamin Gitlow (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961, contrib.: American Company Unions: A Study of Employee Representation Plans, "Works Councils", and Other Substitutes for labor Unions (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1926), by Robert W. Dunn Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement (Labor Herald Library #4; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Capitalism, Socialism, and the War (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961, contrib.: The Case of Puerto Rico: Memorandum to the United Nations (New York: New Century Publishers, 1953), by Communist Party of Puerto Rico Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Communist Position on the Negro Question (New York: New Century Publishers, 1947), also by Benjamin J. Davis, Eugene Dennis, James E. Jackson, James S. Allen, Abner W. Berry, Homer Chase, Alex Bittelman, Ray Hansborough, Max Weiss, Edward E. Strong, and William L. Patterson, contrib. by Nat Ross (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Crime of El Fanguito: An Open Letter to President Truman on Puerto Rico (New York: New Century Publishers, 1948) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Crisis in the Socialist Party (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1936) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: For Speedy Victory: The Second Front Now (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1920), contrib. by John A. Fitch Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: How the Auto Workers Won (New York: Daily Worker, ca. 1937), also by William W. Weinstone (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: In Defense of the Communist Party and the Indicted Leaders (New York: New Century Publishers, 1949) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Industrial Unionism (second edition; New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1936) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Insurgency: or, The Economic Power of the Middle Class (Seattle: Trustee Printing Co., c1910), also by Hermon F. Titus (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Labor and the Marshall Plan (New York: New Century Publishers, 1948) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Labor and the War (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1942) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961, contrib.: Labor's Martyrs: Haymarket 1887, Sacco and Vanzetti 1927 (1937), by Vito Marcantonio Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers: Report of a Speech Against the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, Made in New Star Casino, New York City on May 10, 1931 (New York: Trade Union Unity League, ca. 1931) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961, contrib.: The Meaning of the Soviet Trials, Including the Official Text of the Indictment of the Bukharin-Trotskyite Bloc (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1938), by Emel'ian IAroslavskii Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Misleaders of Labor (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, c1927) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: More Pages From a Worker's Life (Occasional paper - American Institute for Marxist Studies #32; 1979), ed. by Arthur Zipser (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Organize the Unorganized (Labor Herald Library #17; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1926) (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Organized Labor Faces the New World (New York: New Century Publishers, 1945) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1936) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Outline History of the World Trade Union Movement (New York: International Publishers, c1956) (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Party Building and Political Leadership (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), also by Alex Bittelman, James W. Ford, and Charles Krumbein Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Patriots Fight For Peace! (New York: Communist Party USA, ca. 1949), also by Eugene Dennis (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The People and the Congress (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Principles and Program of the Trade Union Educational League (1922), also by Trade Union Educational League (U.S.) (HTML at marxists.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Quarantine the Warmongers (New York: New Century Publishers, 1947) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Questions and Answers on the Piatakov-Radek Trial (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Railroad Workers Forward! (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Railroaders' Next Step: Amalgamation (Labor Herald Library #1; second edition; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Revolutionary Crisis of 1918-1921 in Germany, England, Italy and France (Labor Herald Library #3; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1921) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Russia in 1924 (Labor Herald Library #11; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1924) (HTML at marxists.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Russian Revolution (Labor Herald Library #2; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1921) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Russian Workers and Workshops in 1926 (Labor Herald Library #16; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1926) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Soviet Democracy and the War (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Soviet Union: Friend and Ally of the American People (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1941) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Strike Strategy (Labor Herald Library #18; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1926) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Syndicalism (Chicago: W. Z. Foster, ca. 1913), also by Earl C. Ford Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Toward Soviet America (special edition printed for International Publishers by Coward-McCann, c1932) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Trade Unions in America (Little Red Library #1; Chicago: Pub. for the Trade Union Educational League by the Daily Worker Pub. Co., ca. 1925), also by James Patrick Cannon and Earl Browder Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Unionizing Steel (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1936) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The United States and the Soviet Union (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Victorious Socialist Construction in the Soviet Union (New York: Trade Union Unity League, ca. 1931) (multiple formats at archive.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The War Crisis: Questions and Answers (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940) (PDF at flvc.org) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Watson-Parker Law: The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1927) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: What Means a Strike in Steel (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Wrecking the Labor Banks: The Collapse of the Labor Banks and Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1927) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Your Questions Answered on Politics, Peace, Economics, Anti-Semitism, Race Prejudice, Religion, Trade Unionism, Americanism, Democracy, Socialism, Communism (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1939)
Additional books by William Z. Foster in the extended shelves: Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The coal miners, their problems in war and peace. (New century publishers, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Communism versus fascism (Workers library publishers, inc., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The great steel strike and its lessons. (Da Capo Press, 1971) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Labor's Martyrs : Haymarket (1887), Sacco and Vanzetti (1927). (Workers Library Publishers, 1937), also by Vito Marcantonio (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: A manual of industrial unionism, organizational structure and policies. (Workers library publishers, 1937) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The meaning of the 9-party Communist conference (New Century, 1947) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The menace of a new world war (New Century Publishers, 1946) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Misleaders of labor (Trade union educational league, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The people and the Congress. ([Workers Library Publishers], 1943) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The present situation and the next tasks (New Century Publishers, 1945), also by Communist Party of the United States of America (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Problems of organized labor today (New Century Publishers, 1946), also by Hugo Gellert (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Profzhuliki v S.A.S.Sh. : amerikanskaia profbiurokratiia za rabotoi (Profinterna, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The railroaders' next step (The Trade union educational league, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The Rankin witch hunt (New Century Publishers, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Smash Hitler's spring offensive now! (Workers library publishers, inc., 1942) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Socialism, the road to peace, prosperity and freedom. (Workers library publishers, inc., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The steel workers and the fight for labor's rights (New Century Publishers, 1952) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Stop wage-cuts and layoffs on the railroads : a reply to President T.C. Cashen of the Switchmen's Union of North America. (Workers Library Publishers, 1938), also by T. C. Cashen and Switchmen's Union of North America (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: The strike situation and organized labor's wage and job strategy. (New Century, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: Toward Soviet America (New York : International Publishers, [1932], 1932) (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: What's what about the war; questions and answers (Pub. for the National Election Campaign Committee, Communist Party of the United States, by Workers library publishers, inc., 1940), also by Communist Party of the United States of America. National Election Campaign Committee (page images at HathiTrust) Foster, William Z., 1881-1961: World capitalism and world socialism (Workers library publishers, inc., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
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