![3732588] The Outcast Manufacturers. Charles Fort](/pictures/thumb/3732588_1.jpg?v=1670281868)
The Outcast Manufacturers.
The author’s first book and first edition of this tale of slum life in New York City that was championed by Theodore Dreisser. Variant bindings..... Read More about The Outcast Manufacturers
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![3732622] Black Workers and the New Unions. Horace R. Cayton, George S. Mitchell](/images/noimage-req.png)
Black Workers and the New Unions.
From the 1946 publisher’s catalog: “This is a book for those who want to know what really happens when, in circumstances of enormous complexity and..... Read More about Black Workers and the New Unions
![3730793] [Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia...](/pictures/thumb/3730793_1.jpg?v=1647918301)
[Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation Company. The Army Can Wait No Longer… [opening lines of broadside]
Unrecorded World War II military directive issued to employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Company on strike in protest against Black employees taking on non-menial jobs..... Read More about Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation...
![3730883] [Child Labor and Reform:] Our Jewels; and the Work of Resetting Them. Benj. J. Crew](/pictures/thumb/3730883_1.jpg?v=1628131425)
[Child Labor and Reform:] Our Jewels; and the Work of Resetting Them.
Scarce. The author was the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty. He provides its history, philosophy, and its progressive-thinking activities to..... Read More about Child Labor and Reform:] Our Jewels; and the Work of Resetting Them
![3730614] The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...](/pictures/thumb/3730614_1.jpg?v=1624502598)
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..... Read More about The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...
![3730561] Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776. Abbot...](/pictures/thumb/3730561_1.jpg?v=1622757853)
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..... Read More about Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
![3729472] Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed...](/pictures/thumb/3729472_1.jpg?v=1597437275)
Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both co-authors]
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...
![3729463] The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South. William...](/pictures/thumb/3729463_1.jpg?v=1597437273)
The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South.
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
![3729219] Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and its Connection with the Homestead Riots,...](/pictures/thumb/3729219_1.jpg?v=1591116951)
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and its Connection with the Homestead Riots, July, 1892. Capital and Labor.
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....
![3728640] The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia. Lorenzo J. Greene, Myra Colson...](/pictures/thumb/3728640.jpg?v=1592862864)
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...... Read More about The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia
![3728460] Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History....](/pictures/thumb/3728460_1.jpg?v=1551136086)
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
![3728459] Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History....](/pictures/thumb/3728459_1.jpg?v=1551136085)
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
![3728423] Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]. Woodrow...](/pictures/thumb/3728423_1.jpg?v=1574180564)
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..... Read More about Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title
![3727673] [1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection]. Social Security Board Federal...](/pictures/thumb/3727673_1.jpg?v=1538000966)
[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..... Read More about 1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection
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