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1889réf. 10732Paris, Lahure, 1889 ; in-8 ; cartonnage d'éditeur de percaline bleu-pétrole, titrage noir et doré ; (4), XXI, (3), 556 pp., nombreuses figures, 6 planches hors-texte dont 4 dépliantes, grande carte dépliante en couleurs de navigation entre Paris et Rouen.
1938réf. 013125Paris N.R.F., Editions Gallimard 1938 In-12 Broché Ed. originale
1834Professionally rebound with original boards, new end papers and spine. Name to title page and that of Professor Peter Townsend on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean slightly tanned slightly wrinkled pages in a very tight binding with roughly trimmed dusty page edges. 362 pages plus Supplement No 1 of 128pp. Official Report on the workings of The Poor Law and the Poor Law Amendment Act which led to the establishment of workhouses. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.
réf. 467688HM Stationery Office. Paperback. Good. The Monopolies Commission Report from HM Stationery Office HM Stationery Office paperback
réf. 1657119 cent Women Employment The Twenty-First Annual Report of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women April 1880. London: Printed by John Bale & Sons 1880. First edition. 8 x 5 in. Original paper wrappers. 30 pages. No other copies in institutional or library collections according to OCLC Worldcat. "The Society is formed for promoting the Training of Women and their employment in industrial pursuits." Includes reports on training needed to participate in different sectors of the workforce including wood carving hospital nursing and hairdressing among others. The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was established in 1859 by women's rights leaders Jessie Boucherett Barbara Bodichon and Adelaide Anne Proctor to promote the training and employment of women. Light pencil marks in margins. Very good condition. No other copies in institutional or library collections according to OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
réf. 16568Bessie Rayner Parkes. The Market for Educated Female Labor. 1859. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 5 in. Unbound. 6 pages missing last 2 pages. No other copies in institutional or library collection in the US according to OCLC Worldcat. "The daughter may may marry but her husband may die.or be too poor to support her and her children; let her at least be trained beforehand to some possible way of getting her bread." Bessie Rayner Parkes one of the most prominent women's rights activist of her day writes that girls and young women must receive an education or a useful trade in the same way that boys do. "We lay it down as a primary social law conceded by all political economists that a father ought to provide for all his children or give them the means of providing for themselves." She emphasizes how common it is for middle-class women to join the workforce: "Probably every person present has a female relative or intimate friend whom trade-failure the exigencies of a numerous household or the early death of husband or father has compelled to this course; it is the experience of every family." An argument for the importance of skilled and educated women in the work force their place in the market and the challenges that they faced. Repairs to top right corner and right edge of page 1. Small repair to left edge page 6. Good condition. unknown books
réf. 16739Women's Fight for Employment Equality. "Lowell Offering. Written Edited and Published by Female Operatives Employed in the Mills." 1844. Pamphlet. The Lowell Offering was a monthly publication run by women working in the Lowell Textile Mill from 1840-1845. Featuring the women's poetry essays and other literary efforts the magazine gave female factory workers the opportunity to share their creative endeavors; for the women who edited and published the periodical the Lowell Offering also provided demonstrable and employable skills in publishing and journalism. This 1844 edition comes from the penultimate year of the publication. It is the earliest piece in the collection. Lowell solved the problem of labor at his mills by employing young women between the ages of 15 and 35 who became known as "mill girls". Unlike European industries which had access to "large landless urban populations whose reliance on the wage system gave them few economic choices" American companies had to grapple with a small labor supply because the population was small and most preferred farming their own land and the economic independence that came with it. In order to persuade these young women to work at a mill they were paid in cash once "every week or two weeks". In line with the Boston Associates' worldview the mill girls were encouraged to educate themselves and pursue intellectual activities. They attended free lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Quincy Adams and read books they borrowed from circulating libraries. They were also encouraged to join "improvement circles" that promoted creative writing and public discussion. unknown books
1931réf. 2111902160500875Not Available 1931. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of copies: Secretariat Not Available paperback
réf. BN725316mit press 1975. work in america work in america w.e.upjohn institute for employment research mit press 1975 unknown
réf. 606580"Dick Jaeckel on Twentieth Century Fox employment form when he worked in the Fox mailroom at age 16 April 15 1943. Jaeckel signed and accomplished in his hand. 8 1/2" x 4" fine. Rare thus!. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
réf. 16569Women Employment J. B. Remarks on the Obstacles to the More General Employment of Women and on the Means of Removing Them. London: Published at the Office fo the English Woman's Journal Company Limited 1860. First edition. 16 pages. Original paper wrappers. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. A pamphlet supporting strategies for the expansion of women's employment opportunities. It outlines current obstacles to women's work such as hostility from male employees: "Women however cannot be employed in England in this manner because of the jealousy of their fellow workmen. If a master were to employ women in any part of the business the whole of his workmen would strike at once." The document also lists sad consequences of the current work climate: "Workhouses were found to be overcrowded with able-bodies females while charities were besieged with women praying to be provided either with employment or bread." Stain to upper left edge front. Toning to last page. Light pencil marks in margin. Very good condition. Only 2 copies held in library or institutions in the US according to OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
réf. 16566The Employment of Married Women in Manufacture. A Paper read at the Social Science Congress held at Norwich October 1873 by Whately Cooke Taylor Esq. London: Frederick Bell & Co. Steam Printers King's Rd. Chelsea 1874. First edition. 12 pages. Original paper wrappers. 8 x 5 1/4 in. "It is at first sign a very humane sentiment no doubt to assert that married women should be relieved from all hard work because of the duties which maternity casts upon them; but when as that the same time you relieve them of some fifteen shillings a-week without providing any substitute you must not be surprised if they themselves do not view your condescension in the same light." In this document many arguments are made against regulating married women factory workers as women working in agriculture and domestic roles did not face the same restrictions. Very good condition. unknown books
réf. 16567John Boyd Kinnear. The Right of Women to Labour. Being portions of an essay re-printed by permission form "Woman's Work and Woman's Culture." London: Printed by Frederick Bell & Co. Chelsea S.W. 1873. First edition. 14 pages. Original paper wrappers. 8 x 5 1/4 in. Kinnear a radical Scottish politician and lawyer advocates for the integration of women's labor wherever appropriate: "there are other things which women can do at least as well as men.Then why should women not do it" He brings up the need to defend women workers in the changing atmosphere as they were prevented from "forming effective trade unions to secure their rights" at the same time that increased industrialization was displacing them from factory labor jobs. Very good condition. unknown books
réf. 300-04180Republic of Benin. Paperback. Good. Good condition with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title! Republic of Benin paperback
197968 pages. Features: Film-Maker Robert Altman; Two-page color-photo ad for the Volkswagen Rabbit features Mr. Leslie T. Cho-Chu and family of Agincourt, Ontario; Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP Foundation) ad; Norman Bethune - Not Yet Ready for Prime Time; Two-page color-photo ad for the Honda Accords (2- and 4-door); The Sheik of Massawippi - Saad Gabr of North Hatley, Qubec; Election coverage of Joe Clark vs. Pierre Trudeau; Federal election race in Atlantic Canada, where bread and butter count; Lie Detectors used in employment screening; Bone marrow transplant between twin brothers Barry and Gary Armstrong of Chipman, New Brunswick; Ed Broadbent - The Third Man; NDP - the party that rose from the dust - with nice photo of CCFers in 1933; Idi Amin looses power in Uganda; Violence in Nicaragua; Warfare inside the Teamsters union; Actor John Voight; Jake Moore of Brascan attempts to buy F.W. Woolworth Co.; Guitar Manufacturer Normand Boucher of La Patrie, Quebec; Archaeology article re: Old Crow; Overuse and Abuse stalk Lake Louise - "The Coney Island of the Rockies"; Childhood Leukemia - stalemate in a long war - article with photo of Carol and Becki Scott; Musician Murray McLauchlan; Michael Ondaatje - "Home is Where the Hurt Is"; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1887réf. 174331887. Women's Employment MABEL Robert F. Our Working Women and Their Earnings. United States 1887. First Edition. 13 pages measuring approximately 6" x 10" inches. At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. The article begins "We as a nation have made no effort to teach our redundant female population to support itself although our position as a mother of colonies leaves us with a steadily increasing proportion of women who through the emigration of their male relatives are forces to provide for themselves." and concludes that "a woman's technical training will have still done her a good service in quickening her intelligence and in thus making her a wiser mother to her children and a more sympathetic companion to her husband above all in banishing much care by ensuring to her a means of livelihood in case of need." A compassionate thoughtful appraisal of the state of women's labor and financial prospects in the United States backed up by employment and pay statistics from the end of the 19th century. Cleanly disbound. Chipped along top edge. Toning. Pages clean and uncreased. Overall in good condition. unknown
1933223 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon blank leaf following copyright page. Several black and white photographic plates including portrait of author and, at page 107, an amazing 1929 scene of many dozens of fedora-wearing investors crammed into Solloway, Mills & Company's Vancouver office engaged in what was surely frenetic stock trading. Mr. Solloway argues for a Canadian National Economic Council, a National Stock Exchange, and government control of large financial institutions. In the second part he uses his company, Solloway, Mills and its prosecutions to show that money used in Canadian investment and speculation creates Canadian employment, and that the mistakes of politicians can destroy industry, resulting in unemployment. One plate loose but present. Front free endpaper removed, resulting in the binding being open at that point. Above-average external wear. Binding brittle. A worthy copy of this fascinating work. Book
réf. 08180306.lvGood. Covers show significant edge curling and light corner wear. Finger smudging on edges of text block. Text itself appears bright clean and unmarked. unknown
réf. 16260Broadside calling on women to join a mass demonstration against reductions to the WPA 1937 documents organized opposition to cutbacks in one of the New Deal's principal employment programs during the continuing economic instability of the Great Depression. Addressing women specifically the broadside argues that WPA reductions threatened not only workers directly employed by the program but wage standards more broadly warning that increased unemployment would place downward pressure on earnings. Its appeal places women within contemporary campaigns over public employment wages and federal responsibility for economic relief. Broadside calling women to protest WPA cuts. Issuer not identified. 1937. 8.5 × 11 inches. The text urges women to participate in a mass demonstration protesting cuts to WPA funding and asks them to consider both their direct relationship to federal work programs and the wider consequences of rising unemployment. By connecting reduced WPA employment with falling wages the broadside frames the demonstration as a labor issue extending beyond current relief workers and calls upon women to participate in organized political action against the reductions. Very fragile with small tears and chips along the top and right edges; overall Good Condition. The broadside preserves direct evidence of women being recruited into Depression-era labor protest and of arguments linking New Deal employment programs to wage conditions across the broader workforce. unknown
1982réf. 196801982. African American Davis George and Watson Glegg. Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1982. Signed First Edition Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 204 pages. Measures 6" x 8.5". Signed in pen by both George Davis and Glegg Watson on the front free endpaper. The book collects over 160 interviews to convey black life in corporate America. From the front flap: "This is the first in-depth look at the professional and personal lives of black men and women trying to 'make it' in a world created by and for white males." The authors were asked to create and teach a course based on the book's insights for two terms at the Yale School of Organization and Management making it the first course in the nation in multicultural management. Black and white photo of authors featured on the back cover. Dime-sized stain on corner of front free endpaper but cover is clean textblock tight overall in very good condition. unknown
réf. 606580"Dick Jaeckel on Twentieth Century Fox employment form when he worked in the Fox mailroom at age 16 April 15 1943. Jaeckel signed and accomplished in his hand. 8 1/2" x 4" fine. Rare thus!. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown
1873réf. 165671873. Kinnear John Boyd. The Right of Women to Labour 1873 argues against restrictions on women's employment and examines the economic consequences of industrialization for women who depended upon paid work. Kinnear a Scottish lawyer writer and later Liberal politician rejects occupational exclusion based on sex writing "there are other things which women can do at least as well as men.Then why should women not do it" His argument extends beyond access to employment to the conditions under which women worked including their difficulty in "forming effective trade unions to secure their rights." The pamphlet thus addresses both women's right to enter occupations and their limited power to protect themselves collectively once employed. Kinnear John Boyd. The Right of Women to Labour. Being Portions of an Essay Re-printed by Permission from "Woman's Work and Woman's Culture." London: Printed by Frederick Bell & Co. Chelsea S.W. 1873. First edition. 14 pages. The text reprints portions of Kinnear's contribution to Josephine Butler's Woman's Work and Woman's Culture first published in 1869 a collection addressing women's education employment legal status suffrage and professional opportunities. Kinnear argues that mechanization and the movement of production from households into factories had eliminated forms of work traditionally performed by women while exposing those who remained in industrial employment to increased competition. He answers these changes by demanding access to work according to ability rather than sex and by identifying workers' collective organization as a means of defending wages and employment rights. Published amid nineteenth-century campaigns to expand women's access to education professions property rights and political participation Kinnear's pamphlet concentrates specifically on economic independence and the organization of women workers. One pamphlet 14 pages in original paper wrappers measuring 8 x 5 1/4 inches. Very good condition. Its discussion of occupational exclusion mechanization and trade union organization records an early argument that women's economic rights required both access to paid employment and the ability to defend their position within the labor market. unknown
réf. 18979Women's Employment Workingmen Want this Bill! An Act To Amend the Labor Law Relative to Hours of Labor. Utica: Utica Trades Assembly n.d. Measuring 9.5" x 6" on tan paper. A women's labor broadside calling attention to the modification of "labor laws relative to the hours of labor" for women and minors in New York. Decorated in bold black lettering the slogan reads "Workingmen Want this Bill!" followed by the contention that the bill "provides for a half holiday on Saturday for women and minors employed on factories without the necessity of working overtime on other days of the week". This is succeeded by the presentation of the act by "The People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly with excerpts from Sections 1 2 3 and 77. Section 77 states that "Hours of labor of minors and women--No minor under the age of eighteen years and no female shall be employed at labor in any factory in this State before six o'clock in the morning or after nine o'clock in the evening of any day or for more than ten hours in any one day of sixty fifty six hours in any one week nor more than six hours on the last day of the week.". As of this writing OCLC reports fewer than three copies in the United States. This document seems to follow some text from the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act 1916. In very good condition. unknown
1948réf. 200371948. African American Ottley Roi. Black Odyssey: The Story of the Negro in America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1948. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 340 pages. Measures 6" x 8.5". Born in New York City in 1906 Black author and journalist Roi Ottley began his career as a reporter for the New York Amsterdam Star-News. He went on to serve as publicity director for the National C.I.O. War Relief Committee and served as a war correspondent in the 1940s. Here he "traces the strange history of his race in America from the very beginning up to the present day. In early colonial times the Negro was a free and often respected individual; as the colonies grew and cheap labor was needed he was reduced to the status of a slave." The book includes historical moments as well as personal anecdotes from interviews and covers a wide range of events "from the day in 1664 when Maryland became the first colony to legalize slavery through the dark days of servitude to the Emancipation Proclamation and the beginning of the Negro's modern history as a free but segregated citizen." Dust jacket has only minor wear with a small piece of visible tape-repair at the top of spine. Pages are very clean and texblock still tight. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1905réf. 190541905. Women Employment Albumen photograph of two women and a male supervisor working in a textile factory 1905. Measures 6" x 8.5". The photographer captures two women in modest long day dresses leaning upon a large table filled with various textiles and cloths. Beside them a man in a large black top hat stands stoically as his hands rest behind his back. In the background piles of cloth and textiles lay upon large tables and large pipes connect on the ceiling. During the second half of the 19th and early 20th century women began to work in textile clothing factories workshops coal mines tin mines commerce and on farms. Many women were employed in small industries including shirt creation nail making chain production and shoe stitching. Consequently these were known as "sweated industries" as the working hours were lengthy with low pay. Factories organized work along the lines of gender--with men performing the supervisory roles and work which was categorized as "skilled". The edges are minorly worn and the bottom right edge is cut not affecting the image. In very good condition. unknown
