“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..... Read More about Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
Mendicant pamphlet sold during the Great Depression by unemployed or disabled ex-military or naval servicemen. The text consists of humorous military and civilian anecdotes and..... Read More about Comics of War. Hello Buddy. Facts of Service. Remember the Unemployed War Veterans… [caption title
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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..... Read More about C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note
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..... Read More about 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..... Read More about Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History
Facsimile reprint of the 1913 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science here devoted to a four-part examination of contemporary conditions of..... Read More about The Negro’s Progress in Fifty Years. The Annals Volume XLIX September, 1913
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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..... Read More about 1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection
The book documents the slave-hire system with particular focus on the production and use of slave badges and the documentary evidence on the hiring of..... Read More about Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both...
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..... Read More about Black Workers and the New Unions
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...... Read More about The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia
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..... Read More about The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...
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..... Read More about The Negro American Artisan
Manuscript copy of a major address on labor and capital by Wendell Phillips, celebrated American abolitionist, orator, and reformer. Phillips’ December 1865 address, “The Eight..... Read More about “The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865...
Original reports of the congressional investigation of the Homestead Riots; this copy specially bound by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and this also being William Pinkerton’s..... Read More about Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and its Connection with the Homestead Riots, July, 1892....
Chapter titles include “Who Were the Slave Drivers?,” “The Twentieth-Century Narratives,” and “Black Autobiographies.” Plus a chapter on how various historians have examined the phenomenon..... Read More about The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South
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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..... Read More about Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title
