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1965Best.-Nr. 300031San Francisco: the Division 1965. Pamphlet. 34p. staplebound booklet 8.5x11 inches very good second printing; with supplement to the 1960 report laid in. the Division unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 189893Seattle: Citizens to Retain Fair Employment 1978. Two six-panel 3.75x8.5 inch brochures very good. Opposing the initiative that would amend Seattle's Fair Employment and Open Housing ordinances to remove prohibitions against discrimination by sexual orientation. Some emphasis of the threat to straight people as no proof of gay conduct would be required. Citizens to Retain Fair Employment unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 270871New York: National Association of Manufacturers 1942. 20p. stapled wraps 4x8.75 inches staples rusted ownership stamp on front wrap else very good condition. National Association of Manufacturers unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 2638New York: National Association of Manufacturers 1942. 20p. stapled wraps 4x8.75 inches staples rusted a few small rust stains on rear wrap else very good condition. National Association of Manufacturers unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 122812Washington DC: US Dept. of Health Education and Welfare/ President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime 1965. Pamphlet. 110p. stapled wraps 6x9.25 inches very good condition. On problems encountered by young people seeking work. US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare/ President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 287478Washington DC: GPO 1940. Flexible Cloth. A controlled publication witness the prominence of the copy number 8795 but not exactly "limited": xiv 402p. hardbound in 9x6 inch flexible cloth boards with spine- and cover-titling gilt. A typewritten errata leaf is laid in once glued but glue dried leaving splotches on ffep and the leaf item has a lower-corner bump that affects cover and all corner-tips these the only flaws we see; a good to very good copy. FYI no "security" concerns as in national security just confirmations that applicants can use tools properly. GPO unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 139777Washington: GPO 19721. 10p. stapled wraps 8x10.25 inches small rust stain on front wrap else very good condition. GPO unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 80802Washington: the Commission 1991. 13p. 6x9.5 inches text in Spanish very good pamphlet in stapled green wraps. Includes some information on people with AIDS. the Commission unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 80803Washington: the Commission 1991. 19p. 6x9.5 inches text in Spanish very good pamphlet in stapled tan wraps. the Commission unknown books
1938Best.-Nr. 48531Washington DC: GPO 1938. Paperback. xi 99p. 8.5x11 inches wraps slightly worn head of spine chipped faint dampstain on front wrap. Running title: Unemployment census 1937. GPO paperback books
1965Best.-Nr. 308950San Francisco: Department of Industrial Relations 1965. Pamphlet. 52p. tables wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Edge wear; old sticker residue on front cover near head of spine; otherwise Good. A study measuring equality of opportunity gained and enduring discrimination faced by California’s Asian American population. Department of Industrial Relations unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 13924San Francisco: the Division 1963. Pamphlet. 34p. 8.5x11 inches wraps a bit worn ex library Berkeley Police Department with wite-out notation on front wrap and rubberstamp and card pocket on first page else good condition 8.5x11 inches. the Division unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 72397NY: Published by The New York Marine News Company 1930. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 25pp. Slightly darkened with some minor creasing else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. Contents include lists of private shipping companies and Government positions for employment at sea. Dozens of companies listed inside. Published by The New York Marine News Company paperback books
1964Best.-Nr. 96532New York: National Committee on Employment of Youth 1964. Paperback. 156p. wraps bound with a metal clasp 8.5x11 inches very good condition. National Committee on Employment of Youth paperback books
1982Best.-Nr. 257955Washington: the Commission 1982. Paperback. viii 582p. 8.5x11 inches introductory note instruction booklet tables wraps lightly worn and toned rubberstamp and light silverfishing to front wrap else very good condition. Clarence Thomas chaired the commission. the Commission paperback books
1982Best.-Nr. 132457Washington DC: the Commission 1982. Paperback. ix 280p. 12p. appendices 8.5x11 inches wraps light handling weardate stamped and then crossed off in marker on front wrap and first page else good condition. Clarence Thomas chaired the commission. the Commission paperback books
1965Best.-Nr. 13132San Francisco: Department of Industrial Relations 1965. Pamphlet. 52p. 8.5x11 inches stapled wraps very good condition. Department of Industrial Relations unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 102322Washington: the Committee 1944. Pamphlet. 19p. wraps toned else very good condition 5.75x9 inches. the Committee unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 298672New York: AAFEE 1974. Newspaper. 8p. newspaper evenly toned horizontal fold otherwise very good. One page in English the rest in Chinese. This appears to be the first issue of the Bulletin. Much on "The Struggle for Confucius Plaza" an important organizing effort to force the DeMatteis company to hire Asian American workers at its Plaza construction project. "AAFEE came into existence six months ago in order to fight discrimination in the construction industry and to fight for the rights of Asian-American workers. A $40 million construction project in the heart of Chinatown with no Chinese of Asian-American worker sic is a slap in the face of the community." AAFEE which was connected to Jerry Tung's Asian Study Group later renamed the Workers' Viewpoint Organization garnered extensive recognition for its success in this effort. AAFEE unknown books
Best.-Nr. 79538Mexico D. F.: various government departments various dates. All books and booklets are in coated trade-size wraps clean and sturdy. The eleven related texts as a lot. various government departments unknown books
1846Best.-Nr. 72398Charleston: B. Jenkins 1846. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 32pp. Removed from a larger volume with some residue on the spine. Foxed throughout else very good. Sabin 85301. B. Jenkins paperback books
1890Best.-Nr. 164641890. Young Women's Christian Association. Employment Agency Branch 1890s an organizational pamphlet documenting the policies governing a YWCA employment agency in York and the institutional mechanisms used to connect women seeking paid work with prospective employment. By the late nineteenth century YWCA branches had expanded beyond religious fellowship to provide practical services including housing vocational instruction and employment placement for women; YWCA histories record the establishment of employment bureaus and typewriting training during this period. The present pamphlet shows that employment-assistance system in practice through formal agency policies providing primary-source evidence for the study of women's labor charitable and religious social-service networks vocational placement and the changing economic position of women in late Victorian Britain. Young Women's Christian Association. Employment Agency Branch. York: Young Women's Christian Association 1890s. Self-wrappers. Pagination and dimensions not supplied. The pamphlet sets forth policies for the Association's Employment Agency Department defining the administrative framework through which the branch managed employment assistance. Its significance lies in the practical structure it records: rather than merely advocating women's economic independence the agency created a formal mechanism through which applicants and employers could be brought into contact under organizational supervision. This activity belongs to a broader late nineteenth-century transformation in women's work when employment opportunities were still strongly divided by gender but were beginning to expand into clerical professional retail medical and other occupations previously less accessible to women. The York employment agency belongs to the wider history of women's voluntary organizations intervening directly in the labor market by providing placement services training and institutional support. Such services were particularly significant for women navigating an employment landscape in which occupational options and wages remained constrained by gender. The pamphlet therefore offers evidence not simply of YWCA philanthropy but of the administrative infrastructure developed to facilitate women's entry into paid work. No specific physical defects are supplied; overall very good. A concise primary source documenting how a late Victorian women's organization translated social-service aims into a structured employment-placement program. unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 164651892. Young Women's Christian Association. The Y.W.C.A. Crescent July 1892 an early organizational newsletter carrying the motto "Our Aim is Progress" and documenting the public identity of the Young Women's Christian Association during the late nineteenth-century expansion of women's religious educational employment and associational activity. The emphatic language of "progress" places the publication within a culture of organized female self-improvement and collective advancement providing contemporary evidence of how a women-led Christian association presented its aims to members and readers. Without further description of the issue's internal articles its strongest interpretive value lies in this representation of YWCA community identity and the language through which women's organized activity was framed in the 1890s. The Y.W.C.A. Crescent. Vol. 2 No. 4. Young Women's Christian Association July 1892. Newsletter bearing the slogan "Our Aim is Progress." Pagination place of publication dimensions and specific internal contents are not supplied. As the fourth number of the publication's second volume the issue demonstrates an established serial publishing effort by the Association and provides material evidence of the periodical culture through which women's voluntary organizations maintained a recognizable institutional voice. An exact surviving example is independently cataloged under this title volume number and date. The issue belongs to the broader history of women's associational print culture at the close of the nineteenth century when newsletters and organizational periodicals helped sustain communities formed around religious fellowship education employment assistance and women's social development. The phrase "Our Aim is Progress" is particularly evocative of the aspirational vocabulary used by women's organizations seeking to define expanded roles for women within modern urban and professional life although the specific contents of this issue should not be inferred without examination. Covers loose or separated from the body of the newsletter; otherwise no specific defects supplied; overall very good. An early YWCA periodical useful for the study of women's organizational culture institutional publishing and the rhetoric of female advancement in the 1890s. unknown books
1873Best.-Nr. 165641873. Association of Factory Occupiers in the Four Counties of Lancaster York Chester and Derby. Mr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories 1873. First edition of a response by northern English factory owners to Liberal Member of Parliament Anthony John Mundella's campaign to reduce working hours for women and children in British textile mills. Following Mundella's speech before the House of Commons on June 11 1873 the employers challenged his allegations of dangerous working conditions excessive hours and elevated mortality among female and child workers. Mundella condemned the "shameful treatment" of factory laborers and drew particular attention to infant deaths associated with mothers returning to industrial employment shortly after childbirth declaring that "the return of the mother to the mill was a sentence of death on the child." The employers countered his arguments with statistics intended to demonstrate improvements in workers' health and living conditions documenting organized industrial opposition to legislation intended to protect women and children. Association of Factory Occupiers in the Four Counties of Lancaster York Chester and Derby. Mr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories. Observations of the Employers upon the Speech of Mr. Mundella M.P. Made in the House of Commons on Wednesday the 11th of June 1873. Manchester: John Heywood Excelsior Printing Works 1873. First edition. 32 pages. Original paper wrappers measuring 8¼ x 5 inches. The pamphlet reproduces passages from Mundella's parliamentary speech alongside the employers' corresponding rebuttals allowing direct comparison of the competing arguments. Three statistical tables in the appendix present mortality data employed in the controversy. Issued on behalf of the regional factory owners' association the response is dated July 24 1873 and identifies Richard Haworth as chairman Joseph Simpson as treasurer and Henry Whitworth as secretary. The dispute preceded the Factory Act of 1874 which restricted the working hours of women and young persons in textile factories and established a ten-hour working day. Mundella's campaign connected industrial working conditions with public health childhood education and infant mortality while manufacturers resisted further statutory limits by disputing the medical and statistical evidence supporting reform. The pamphlet preserves the employers' organized response to proposed labor protections including their use of mortality statistics to challenge parliamentary testimony about the consequences of factory employment. Very good condition. unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 162621928. Council of Women Civil Servants Higher Grades. Higher Appointments Open to Women in the Civil Service 1928 publicized routes into senior British government employment three years after women became eligible for direct recruitment into the Administrative Class of the Home Civil Service. The Council founded in 1920 to represent women in administrative professional and executive grades campaigned during the interwar period for equal opportunity and equal pay and against restrictions including the marriage bar. This pamphlet addressed a practical obstacle to women's advancement: insufficient knowledge of the senior Civil Service careers then available to female applicants. Its publication belongs to the Council's broader campaign to increase women's access to government positions beyond the clerical grades. Council of Women Civil Servants Higher Grades. Higher Appointments Open to Women in the Civil Service. London: P. S. King & Son Ltd. 1928. 8½ x 5½ inches. Eight-page pamphlet in paper wrappers staple bound. The Council begins from its belief that the "number and the importance of the careers in the Civil Service open to women are not fully recognized" then supplies information intended to acquaint prospective applicants with higher appointments and the procedures for obtaining them. The text describes opportunities in administrative executive and clerical work making the pamphlet both a recruitment document and evidence of the methods used by an organization of women civil servants to encourage women to pursue positions within the government's higher grades. A contemporary listing records another copy as formerly held by the Board of Education library. The pamphlet appeared during a period when formal access to higher Civil Service employment had expanded without eliminating sex-based restrictions within government employment. Women gained access to direct recruitment into the Administrative Class in 1925 yet women civil servants continued to encounter unequal pay restricted advancement and the marriage bar; the Council subsequently presented evidence to the Royal Commission on the Civil Service in 1929-1931 and remained active in campaigns concerning equal pay and women's eligibility for government posts. The present copy has light thumb-soiling stamps on the front wrapper a library sticker on the rear and rusting to the staple binding; good condition. Its eight pages preserve the Council's own effort to translate newly available avenues of advancement into concrete information about careers and application procedures for women seeking higher appointments in the inter war British Civil Service. unknown books
