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1872 · 61228 — London: Strahan & Co. 56 Ludgate Hill 1872. 8vo. xx 284 pp. Dark green-coloured pebbled publisher’s cloth embossed black ruling covers & spine gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear inner hinges a touch weakened slight lean still a VG bright copy. First British edition of this significant French work on labor unions labor organizing originally published as L’ABC du travailleur in 1868 drawing from interviews by the author with Parisian workers artisans and laborers. Prepared against the backdrop of the attempted reforms by Napoleon III during the Second Empire there had been passed an 1864 right to strike law but workers could decide whether to participate independently and still restricted from freedom while many laws controlling what licenses and papers workers had to retain whether they could change employers and much more were still in place. Great Britain experienced a series of strikes from 1870 through 1872 including the Metropolitan Police Strike Gas Stokers’ Strike Linen Strike Warwickshire farmer worker’s strike and also witnessed the emergence of the National Labor Reform Party. About 1828-1885 was a French journalist novelist and publicist who was quite successful with short stories and pamphlets as well as popular manuals on labor and economics before becoming successful with his XIX Siecle paper which protested against conservative reactionaries following the Franco-Prussian War. The original British edition in English is quite scarce and predates the 1873 American edition. Strahan & Co., 56, Ludgate Hill, hardcover