The New Age, Volume I, No. 1 (November 6, 1875)
Boston: John M. L. Babcock, editor, 1875. 8-page weekly newspaper. 39cm. Untrimmed. Later horizontal fold. Progressive pro-labor, pro-women's suffrage paper. More
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Work Song: Greenville County Museum of Art May 15 through July 1, 1990, McKissick Museum September 2 through October 28, 1990.
Greenville County Museum of Art, (c. 1990). Paperback. [Exhibition catalog] illustrations (some color), 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Front free enpaper lightly spotted. Catalog for an exhibition at Greenville County Museum of Art, May 15 through July 1, 1990, and at McKissick Museum September 2 through October 28..... More
L'Administration du Travail en Cote-d'Ivoire
Paris: Librairies Techniques, 1973. Paperback. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Cover slightly scuffed. French text. Annales de l'Universite d'Abidjan. 1973 - Serie A (Droit) - Volume 1. More
The Trade Union Movement in Nigeria
New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, (1970). Hardcover. index, xii, 336p. Original boards. dj. 22cm. Foxing on jacket. More
Zu zein 70-yorikn iubilei
New York: Nat'l Executive Committee of the Workmen's Circle, 1951. Hardcover. 429, 51p. Hardcover. 23cm. Cover scuffing & wear. Address label on endpaper. No Jacket. Yiddish text, with an English-language section at the end (and a separate English title-page: Joseph Baskin on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday). More
History of the American Working Class
NY: International Publishers, (1936). 4th printing. Hardcover. index, 385p. Cloth. dj. 22cm. Name on endpaper. An unusually attractive copy. More
Report of Industrial Inquiry Commission on Canadian National Railways "Run-Throughs" (pursuant to Section 56 of the Industrial Relations and Disputes Investigation Act)
Ottawa: Queen's printer, 1965. Paperback. vii, 163p. Wrapper. 25 cm. Backstrip browned. Laid in is a brief typed letter, signed from Justice Samuel Freedman, forwarding an advance copy of the report (presumably this copy). Justice Freedman, a Judge of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba, was the sole member of..... More
Report of Industrial Inquiry Commission on Canadian National Railways "Run-Throughs" (pursuant to Section 56 of the Industrial Relations and Disputes Investigation Act)
Ottawa: Queen's printer, 1965. Paperback. vii, 163p. Wrapper. 25cm. Backstrip browned. INSCRIBED on first blank page by Samuel Freedman. Justice Freedman, a Judge of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba, was the sole member of the Commission. More
The Welfare of the African Labourer in Tanganyika
Dar es Salaam: Government Printer, 1944. 1st ed. Hardcover. diagrams & tables (2 folding), xii, 78p. 19cm. Glue and label remnant inside back cover. No jacket. More
Apprentice Agreement, dated February 1,1869 between Mary Blackburn (of Fairfax), for her son John Blackburn to be apprenticed as a "farm servant" to Robert Wrem of Alexandria, Virginia for a p[eriod of 11 months for which John would receive $6 per month plus "proper and suitable food and quarters"
Partly printed broadside. 20 x 16 cm. Some wrinkling and creasing but still sound and easily readable. It is unclear to us whether John was white or African American although we strongly suspect the latter. Southern whites used such apprentice agreements, often with the approval of the Freeman's Buraeu, to..... More
Chinese Labor in South Africa (1903-1910): A Thesis to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota
n.p. 1996. Paperback. map, illustrations, 80, 8p. Softcover in plain pink wrapper with black plastic comb binding. Text photocopied. 28cm. Text printed on one side. Master's thesis. More
The Negro American Artisan: Report of a Social Study made by Atlanta University ...
Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1912. 1st ed. Paperback. index, 144p. Softcover. Original gray wrapper. 23 cm. Some cellophane tape repair on back cover and in lower margin of last several leaves. The Atlanta University Publications, No. 17. More
Population Movement, Labor Migration, and Social Movement in a Mossi Village
n.p. (1976). Paperback. 8 maps, ix, [1], 264p. Softcover. Photocopy in contemporary black covers. 28cm. Doctoral dissertation at Brandeis University, More
Staff Report on the National Labor Relations Board
[Washington]: Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, Revised November 1948. Paperback. sections separately-paginated. Wrapper. 27cm. Three brass fasteners along left side. Prepared for the Commission by Galenson. More
American Labor Dynamics: A Study of the Labor Scene in the Light of Post-War Developments. An Inquiry by Thirty-Two Labor Men, Teachers, Editors, and Technicians
New York: Harcourt Brace, (c. 1928). Hardcover. index, xv, 432p. Cloth. dj. 22cm. More
Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910
Portsmouth: Heinemann, (c. 1994). 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, index, xxiii, 305p. Original gray cloth. dj. 24cm. More
Motor City Convention Souvenir: The 39th Annual Convention ... 1940
1940. International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union. Motor City Convention Souvenir: The 39th Annual Convention ... 1940, Detroit, Michigan. [Detroit: 1940]. photos, 96p. Softcover in original spiral binding. 31cm. Some scuffing and staining on back cover. Contents sound and clean., Good. More
Dvadtsat' let Russkoi sektsii (b. RNOV), 1920-1940: Iubileinyi sbornik
New York: Russian Section of IWO, 1940. Hardcover. photos (most in text), 303p. Cloth. 25cm. Ends of backstrip and cover corners frayed. No Jacket. Russian text. More
Indian Trade Unions: A Survey
Bombay: Manaktalas, (: (1966). 2nd rev. ed. Hardcover. index, ix, 343p. Black cloth. dj. 22cm. Relatively minor cover bubbling. INSCRIBED (on dedication page). More
Liberation in Sugarland: Readings on Social Problems in the Sugar Industry
Manila: Kilusan ng Bayang Pilipino, 1971. Paperback. iv, 172p. Wrapper. 27cm. Ex lib. Cover encased in plastic wrapper leaving tapemarks on endsheets. More
Compulsory Labour Service in Bulgaria with the Authorization of the International Labour Office
Geneva: Oct. 1922. Paperback. 158p. Original wrapper. Studies & Reports, Series B (Economic Conditions), No. 12. More
Jelentese a 17. Kuldottkozgyulesnek, 1898-1948
[Budapest]: Athenaeum, 1949. Hardcover. photos and illustrations (some color), 207p. 29cm. Extremities rubbed. Cover scuffed. Contents sound. No Jacket. Hungarian text. Laid in is a separate sixteen page stapled booklet in English ("Explanation of Text and Pictures....") which is sound with some dog-earing and creasing of page edges. More
The Negro Worker's Progress in Minnesota: A Report to Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Minnesota by the Governor's Interracial Commission
St. Paul: 1949. [2nd ed.]. Paperback. 66p. Wrapper. 21cm. Lightly browned. Minor dog-earing. *Whitney Young and William Seabron collected the data and prepared the information for this edition. The first edition (1945) was titled "The Negro Worker in Minnesota." More
The Economics of Casual Labor: a Study of the Longshore Industry
Berne: Herbert Lang & Co., 1970. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, 167p. dj. 23cm. Jacket lightly scuffed. INSCRIBED on corner of title-page (by "HW"). More
Apprentices, Skilled Craftsmen and the Negro: An Analysis
New York: (1960). Paperback. 137p. Original wrapper. 23cm. Scattered foxing. Inked note on front cover and on 2 text-pages. More