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184728539Boston: Published by the Author 1847. Original printed wrappers stitched 32pp. Wrappers chipped repair to front wrap no text loss else Very Good.<br/><br/> An early scarce and unusual radical critique of American capitalism. Apologists for Negro slavery would echo this New England condemnation of the free labor system. The author says wage labor in America is "worse than things at the South."<br/> The League attributes "the evils which oppress and burden the men and women of New England" to "a vicious social organization." America is "but one remove from.the Feudal state. Labor and capital are in direct antagonism. Or rather that labor is passive while capital wages a ceaseless war a guerilla war at least upon it cutting off its resources whenever it is possible. Instead of standing upon an equal footing with capital and being able to treat with it upon an equal basis it stands in the market-place like a slave." The author and the League urge the "Organization of Labor and the Association of Laborers whereby they shall work for themselves and not for another and receive the Profits of their own Labor." <br/>Sabin 15187. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 35408.16. OCLC locates ten copies under several accession numbers as of January 2021. Published by the Author unknown books
2027Philadelphia: G. W. Mentz & Son 1840. . 16mo full contemporary leather worn; partial leather spine label; ownership notation dated 1858 on the verso of the front free endpaper The Appendix the last 131 pp. contains "Formularies for the use of the churches together with rules and orders for the government of the General Synod" pp. 46-48 of the first pagination Philadelphia: G. W. Mentz & Son, 1840. hardcover books
195251262Los Angeles: Freedom Clubs 1952. Offprint. Quarto 11" x 8-1/2"; bifolium; 4pp. Two horizontal mailing folds as issued else Fine. Reprinted from the December 1952 issue of the National Republic. Right-wing attack on attempts to block passage of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act which established immigration restrictions in order to ". safeguard the country from communism "Jewish interests" and undesirables . deemed as external threats to national security" REF: Marinari. "Divided and Conquered: Immigration Reform Advocates and the Passage of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act." Journal of American Ethnic History vol. 35 no. 3 Spring 2016. Freedom Clubs unknown books
185315279London: Saunders & Stanford; Manchester: Simms & Diham 1853. Small 8vo. 40 pp. <br><br>In the society's series: "India reform" this being number 9. Library of Congress attributes authorship to John Sullivan. Condemnation of British assumptions that regarded native rule as evil and wrong. Uncommon. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2I1607 & 2I1608 for the series. Removed from a nonce volume. Good condition. Saunders & Stanford; Manchester: Simms & Diham unknown books
189016444New York: John B. Alden 1890. Narrow small octavo 18.5cm x 11cm. Original terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 182pp with advertising leaf facing title page; index. Covers slightly soiled and rubbed; dusting to text block edges and endpapers; still a tight internally clean copy VG. Fairly representative Progressive Era omnium-gatherum of social reform ideas statistics and economic theory. The author was a California lawyer and journalist for some time assistant managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner and the author of some twenty books on a wide variety of topics including California history social reform and spiritualism. From the advertising leaf: ".An impartial discussion of some of the wrongs and rights of capital and labor together with an analysis of industrial depressions as related to the present railway system. Also a glance a co-operative profit-sharing an analysis of Henry George's land fallacies with thoughts on socialism and the future of labor containing notes and tables on the social condition of the people. John B. Alden unknown books
197114621Washington: USNSA United States National Student Association 1971. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Original printed wrappers; 298pp. Ownership signature to front cover and title page; mild external wear and soil; Very Good. Collection of essays on educational reform including contributions by Carl rogers Rick Kean Gerald Farber James Nixon Peter Marin and others. USNSA [United States National Student Association] unknown books
192014043Kansas City: Burton Publishing Co 1920. First Edition. Small octavo 19cm. Cloth boards lettered in red and black; 184pp. Presentation copy warmly inscribed on front endpaper to UMWA President John L. Lewis: "To John L. Lewis Esq / I am with you heart and soul in any honest effort to better the condition of the heroic hardies who work under ground / R.D. Kathrens" dated 1920. Light wear and soil to boards; presentation leaf has been tipped-on to a stub; a few marginal marks in text possibly in Lewis's hand; Very Good. Publishes a series of letters from the author to Charles Schwab who at this time was President of Bethlehem Steel seeking Schwab's support in implementing a sort of "maximum wage" scheme in the United States. Kathrens's letters grow increasingly indignant as Schwab steadfastly ignores his requests for the courtesy of a reply: ".it is hardly consistent with the civilities--as we understand them west of the Alleghenies--to shoo me away or send me to the back door or require me to deal with the servants." Kathrens professes his own sanity and good judgment frequently enough that our sympathies fall firmly on the side of Mr. Schwab. Includes a full reprint of Kathrens' earlier effort The Menace of the Millionaire and reprints other letters to and from Samuel Untermeyer and George W. Perkins. Burton Publishing Co unknown books
190711384Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1907. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards; gilt spine titles; 368pp. Tight copy externally clean but with moderate foxing to text. Sociological study of female laborers in turn-of-the-century Birmingham. Illustrated with three halftone plates. Not common. University of Chicago Press unknown books
