Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776.
“Colonists In Bondage tells the paradoxical story of those white men and women who endured servitude as a road to freedom. Voluntarily or involuntarily, they.....
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[C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note].
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of.....
Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History.
Blockson: “The best known early study of the development and contribution of blacks in the field of labor. Wesley, (b. 1891), a former president of...
Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History.
Blockson: “The best known early study of the development and contribution of blacks in the field of labor. Wesley, (b. 1891), a former president of...
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[1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection].
The Social Security Act of 1935 was amended in 1939 to provide workers with dependents benefits and survivors benefits. These five pamphlets issued by the...
Black Workers and the New Unions.
Examination of the “problems of Negro labor and its relation to white labor, North and South, under the impact of the New Deal.” Cayton and.....
History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860.
American economic history in the agriculture sector of the southern states. A monumental study cited by numerous scholars since its publication. Washington: Carnegie Institution of...
The Negro Wage Earner.
Signed by co-author Lorenzo Greene. “The purpose of [this] study is to show the various occupations in which Negroes have been employed and to determine.....
The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia.
Contents include, “...The Color Line in Washington Industries; Changes in Employment of Negro Workers; Negro Government Employees; Gains and Losses in Industry Summarized…” Washington, D.C......
Proceedings of the Second National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth…
Proceedings of a Depression-era conference examining the role of the federal government to help African Americans in such areas as social and economic security, education...
Memorial Edition of The Life of Richard Trevithick [cover title].
Memorial biography of early 19th century British railroad and mining engineer, Richard Trevithick (1771–1833). The biography was published under the auspices of the Richard Trevithick...
The Black Worker. The Negro and the Labor Movement.
An economic and social study of the African American workforce, labor market conditions, and trade union politics in the early 20th century. Contents include: The...
The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The Governor’s Interracial Commission.
Report from a special interracial commission exploring why industrial Minnesota denies employment to black workers and how this might impact the post-World War II state...
The Negro American Artisan.
One of a series of studies of “so-called Negro problems” co-edited by African-American sociologist and academic W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and his student, Augustus Granville.....
Forced Labor in the United States.
Comprehensive study of prisons in America specific to all aspects of convict labor; polemical and written as an expose to the many brutalities committed (“The.....
Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]
WWI-era poster calling on operators and workers “to assume the burden of producing an ample supply of coal” to win the war: “The existing scarcity.....
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