Labor Studies and History
New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.
Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels and label residue, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; "While this book looks at a unique reform development during the Progressive period, it attempts to take the reader further and more broadly afield into the era than a strict adherence to the "facts"..... More
New York: Coward-McCann Inc, 1936.
1st Ed 1st Pr. Hardcover. Corner dampstain, lt tone. SIGNED inscription. History of strikes and strike-breaking, pitched battles and corruption. Appears more balanced and less partisan than most. Inscribed "To Tarzan Christened Lou Wedemar: Walter Chambers Claster, NJ Jan 30, 1937". Wedemar was NY journalist... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1919.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Contents: Foreword; I. Lack of Interest and Labor Turnover; II. Building an Organization; III. Forgetting the Human Element; IV. Securing Interest by Instruction; V. Instruction in the Shop; VI. Non-FInancial Incentives; VII..... More
Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Authoritative account of the use of the United States Army during labor unrest in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Contents: Introduction; 1. Labor, Capital, and Industrial Warfare; 2. The Regular Army;... More
Huntsville AL: FPMI Communications, 1994.
Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Light creasing, light rub, light price label residue, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Contents: Introduction; Chapter One: Basic Rights and Responsibilities; Ch Two: Unfair Labor Practices; Ch Three: Bargaining with Agency Management; Ch Four: Representing Employees in Meetings; Ch Five... More
Canberra: Croom Helm Australia, 1983.
Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/slip/pocket, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "This study is primarily an "academic" study. In the basic perspective adopted here, "industrial relations" is, in the first instance, a "social science." As a social science, industrial relations is about social phenomena and social..... More
London: Croom Helm / St Martin's Press, 1983.
Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "This study focuses primarily on the early Industrial Revolution (c1780-1820), a period which has received less attention than the later Industrial Revolution." - Preface. Contents: Preface; 1. Debate over the "Working Class"; 2. People... More
No place stated: No publisher stated, [1952?].
Illustrated by Illustrated. Pamphlet. Light tone, slight wear. Crisp copy. Textile Workers Union of America organizer's condemnation of union leadership during American Enka Corporation Strike, 1950. Strike at southern textile plant broken with violence; alleges senior union leaders abandoned the striking workers.; 16 pages. More
Leiden: E J Brill, 1988.
Trade Paper. Ex-Lib Library stamps/marks, corner stained, edgewear. Solid copy. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, vol XLIX. Ten essays.; Ex-Library; 198 pages. More
Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; Contents: Introduction: "Only If You Stay Together": Class, Unionism, and America's Packinghouse Workers; 1. Purveyors to a Nation: Capital and Labor in the Meatpacking Industry; Part 1 "CIO, Let's Go!": The... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "This book focuses on the labor market processes and outcomes of foreign-born persons in the United States, such as unemployment, quit rates, job finding rates, and rates of leaving the labor force." - Introduction. ; Garland Studies..... More
Jacobi, Otto, Maria Jepsen, Berndt Keller, Manfred Weiss (eds)
Dusseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2007.
Trade Paperback. Spine rub, light sun, otherwise slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; "Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "Nearly forty years after negotiation of the first teachers' contract, controversy persists over the impact of collective bargaining on public education. Advocates contend that teacher unions are reforming schools; critics argue that they..... More
Washington DC: P S Ridsdale, 1913.
Hardcover. Spine sun, light tone, light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Later work by labor leader Mitchell, former President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), and then Second Vice President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). ; 186 pages. More
New York: Arno Press, 1973.
Reprint. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear. Crisp copy.; Reports of a commission to study industrial conditions in the United States, organized by A. Mosely, and consisting of representatives from the principal trade unions of the United Kingdom. Reprint of the 1903 ed. printed by... More
New York: Arno Press, 1974.
Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket residue on rear endpaper, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Child labor and education, reprinted from the Child labor bulletin, v. 1, no. 1 (June 1912); Child labor and poverty, reprinted from the Child labor bulletin, v. 2, no. 1, (May... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light tone, light wear. Crisp hardcover. ; Contents: Introduction; I. The British Theory of Unemployment; II. The Coal Situation and the General Strike in Britain; III. Empire Markets and Trade Depression; IV. The British Cotton Textile Industry; V. The... More
New York: George H Doran for Workers Education Bureau of America, 1922.
Hardcover. Spine creasing, old inked price on front cover, small chipping at spine tail, tone, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Twenties textbook on public speaking for working class education. "It is quite appropriate that the first book... More
Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket residue on rear endpaper, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Contents: Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. British Women and Trade Unionism: Opportunities Made and Missed; 2. French Women and Trade Unionism: The First Hundred Years; 3. Women in the United... More
New York: Arno Press, 1971.
Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcovers. ; Two of two volumes, complete set. "In the single century covered by these documents and selections, American workers tested reform and agrarianism and experimented with communal living. They fought for the franchise with which they achieved..... More
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1992.
Illustrated by 9 Figures and 18 Tables. Hardcover. Some HIGHLIGHTING, library stamps/marks/labels/slip, light wear. Solid copy. ; Contents: I. General Frameworks for the Restructuring (6 articles) ; II. Self-Management: From the Idea to Reality? (3 articles) ; III. New Forms of Management and Labour (4... More
New York: Arno Press, 1971.
Reprint. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear.; Reprint of 1923 edition, New York: Ronald Press. Contents: Preface; I. Seamen and Seamanship; II. The Seamen of the Later Nineteenth Century; III. First Attempts to Organize; IV. Successful Organization; V. Sailor vs Shipowners: The Industrial Field; VI..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1986.
Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; "The Industrial Workers of the World, the most radical union America has seen, was the object of repeated attacks and vilification throughout the decate and a half of its effective existence, 1905-1919. The rough treatment and abuse..... More
San Francisco: [Trade Union Council], 1945.
Pamphlet. Light tone, slight wear. Crisp copy. Report of wartime conference of British, US and Soviet trade unions, which led directly to founding of WFTU. Apparently printed to act as guide to US unionist lobbying at the San Francisco conference which culminated with the... More