Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1889. Hard Cover.
Owner bookplate on front endpaper (Julia Bryant Toohy, daughter of author William Cullen Bryant), faint stain to top and bottom marginal edges, rear board lightly soiled.
317 pp. 8vo. A story relating to the Molly Maguires, with a good.....
. Columbia University, 1981. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing. Light edge wear.
In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes and traces the strong community awareness.....
Rochester, New York: Ronald G. Pettingill Labor Education Fund, 2005. Signed Copy. Large Softcover.
Signed by Jonathan Garlock with inscription. A fine copy.
iv, 152 pp. "Even before the first national labor federations, workers in many American communities formed central labor bodies that brought together workers across the boundaries between.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front free endpaper, first blank and final text page missing. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, crayon marks on paste-down endpapers.
270 pp. Includes discussion of women's suffrage, currency and banking, sex education, labor reform.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state (no Main Street promo page). Lacks scarce jacket. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head, top edge and rear endpapers faintly foxed, rear hinge just beginning to weaken, two tiny spots on fore.....
Massachusetts: Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1974. Stapled Binding.
Spine faintly toned.
Unpaginated. "Prints and drawings which illustrate the growth and development of Lawrence from grassy river banks in Methuen and Andover into a separate entity, an urban community of 35,000 people by 18176. There are several hundred items in the.....
New York: The Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union, Local 10, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First Edition. Spine lightly cocked, spine edges rubbed, light stain to front cover, pages toned, ink name on front endpaper, pencil notation on rear paste-down endpaper.
xii, 450 pp. "It is with a profound sense.....
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
5th printing. Very good in fair jacket. Significant loss from jacket corners and spine. Ink name on front endpaper, magazine clipping of photo of Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein laid in, along with a postcard showing the American Red Cross.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing. Wrapper lightly sunned.
"Rodgers's book is a study of how technology affects ideas. That is the issue to which Rodgers always returns: how did men and women react to the economy of unprecedented plenty that the 19th-century.....
Boston: Saco-Lowell Shops, Boston / William Bond Wheelwright, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges a bit rubbed.
83 pp. A one-hundred-year history of the textile mill which pioneered the first factory system, devised by Francis Cabot Lowell. This was the first time spinning and weaving were performed under.....
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reissue. Hard Cover.
viii, 136 pp. 8vo. 1968 reissue of 1845 original (Sabin 78168). A work based on two lectures by the author before the Bradford Church Institution, which led to 'a principal mill-owner... requesting the publication of the statements on a subject deemed of.....
Cork: Attic Press, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
Appears to be the copy of Hanna's grand-daughter, Michelle Sheehy Skeffinton, 13th June 2001." A fine copy.
xii, 368 pp. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and two of her sisters were part of a pioneering generation of female university students determined to play an.....
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1899. Hard Cover.
Edges a bit rubbed.
ix, [5], 270, [2]; ix, [1], 378, [2] pp. 8vo. Vignettes of working class life on the East and West coasts of America.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1899. Hard Cover.
Hinges weakening, front free endpaper of first volume absent, ink name and address on endpapers.
ix, [5], 270, [2]; ix, [1], 378, [2] pp. 8vo. Vignettes of working class life on the East and West coasts of America.
New York: Harper, 2015. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
2019 reprint. Faint edge wear.
729 pp. With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, itis the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words.....