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Albany: SUNY Press, 1995. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Rear cover creased.
307 pp. An anthology of original essays on the history of work experience in automobile factories, from 1913 to the present.
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.....
New York: International Publishers, 1965. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Foxing to ridge, edge wear.
127 pp. The famous Wobbly poet, songwriter and organizer was executed in Salt Lake City on November 19, 1915. Many felt that he was not guilty of the murder he was charged with, that he did.....
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.....
New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Covers creased, highlighting and ink marginalia.
xiii, 408 pp. Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very.....
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.....
New York / Cambridge, Massachusetts: Russell Sage Foundation / Harvard University Press, 2008. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Sticker ghost on spine.
xii, 454 pp. In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to.....
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.....
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.