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1948rif. 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
1985No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing. A clean pamphlet with unmarked boards and minor rubbing to edges. 20pp. Weekly bulletin produced by the miners during the Miners' Strike in the mid 1980s with details of various support groups, delegates representing at conference, politics and letters about the strike, picket actions and other events. Edited by Ken Livingstone. Very scarce.
rif. 202300425Lausanne, Editions d'en bas - des femmes, des hommes. des parcourd se vie…, 1998 ; in-8, 286 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
rif. 0265921007.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 0366893017.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 152813432X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1990Name to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean copy with bright unmarked very lightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. Spiral binding in very good condiyion. 140pp. Sel-help book aimed at improving meetings.
1893rif. 6644St. Louis: A. R. Fleming & Co 1893. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. Some wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Some staining to covers and corresponding dampstaining to corners of endpapers. A very good copy internally clean and unmarked. Collating viii 9-220: complete including frontis. The first book published by a policewoman in America. Despite assumptions to the contrary "women have served in organized law enforcement in the U.S. almost from the beginning. The first police departments in America were established in the 19th century and in 1845 women began working as matrons in New York City jails" Smith. The practice rapidly spread across the country where police forces needed assistance in supervising female prisoners and dealing with the specific challenges faced by this population. Women's clubs -- particularly the American Female Moral Reform Society and the Women's Christian Temperance Union -- urged recognition for the widespread violence perpetrated on female prisoners and called for meaningful change. "It was these women's groups that fought for these distinctly female positions demanding there was a need for women to take care of women.and they provided police departments with funds for paid matron positions until the government could be convinced of the necessity of having women in the police force" Maiorano. Louisa Harris having served in the prisons and courts of Missouri for nearly a decade became the first of these women to publish about her experience. The resulting narrative reflects an awareness of the social forces that put women at a disadvantage driving them toward arrests or recidivism. Domestic violence poverty and the stigma placed on sex work all do damage to women; and according to Harris these women should not be treated as or placed with violent offenders when they could with proper assistance find safety or build more secure lives. This is the motivation for Harris' memoir. In the introduction she explains that while she hesitated to publish the book which might in some readers awaken a "morbid curiosity" she ultimately moved ahead because "I reasoned that if the world knew more about the unfortunate and their revolting experiences together with the causes that promote misfortune there might be more true sympathy exhibited.While I have from personal observation become familiar with so-called criminals I have had the opportunity to learn many of the causes of the committal of crimes. The law seldom recognizes the palliating influences but humanity should." Harris calls for reforming the handling of juvenile offenders advocates for therapeutic programs for young women and taps into a number of other systemic issues of concern within policing today. Very Good. A. R. Fleming & Co unknown books
2009No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of handling. 288pp. The story of the Professional Footballers' Association and how it helped shape the game of football we know today and the conditions for the players.
1893rif. 6644St. Louis: A. R. Fleming & Co 1893. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. Some wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Some staining to covers and corresponding dampstaining to corners of endpapers. A very good copy internally clean and unmarked. Collating viii 9-220: complete including frontis. The first book published by a policewoman in America. Despite assumptions to the contrary "women have served in organized law enforcement in the U.S. almost from the beginning. The first police departments in America were established in the 19th century and in 1845 women began working as matrons in New York City jails" Smith. The practice rapidly spread across the country where police forces needed assistance in supervising female prisoners and dealing with the specific challenges faced by this population. Women's clubs -- particularly the American Female Moral Reform Society and the Women's Christian Temperance Union -- urged recognition for the widespread violence perpetrated on female prisoners and called for meaningful change. "It was these women's groups that fought for these distinctly female positions demanding there was a need for women to take care of women.and they provided police departments with funds for paid matron positions until the government could be convinced of the necessity of having women in the police force" Maiorano. Louisa Harris having served in the prisons and courts of Missouri for nearly a decade became the first of these women to publish about her experience. The resulting narrative reflects an awareness of the social forces that put women at a disadvantage driving them toward arrests or recidivism. Domestic violence poverty and the stigma placed on sex work all do damage to women; and according to Harris these women should not be treated as or placed with violent offenders when they could with proper assistance find safety or build more secure lives. This is the motivation for Harris' memoir. In the introduction she explains that while she hesitated to publish the book which might in some readers awaken a "morbid curiosity" she ultimately moved ahead because "I reasoned that if the world knew more about the unfortunate and their revolting experiences together with the causes that promote misfortune there might be more true sympathy exhibited.While I have from personal observation become familiar with so-called criminals I have had the opportunity to learn many of the causes of the committal of crimes. The law seldom recognizes the palliating influences but humanity should." Harris calls for reforming the handling of juvenile offenders advocates for therapeutic programs for young women and taps into a number of other systemic issues of concern within policing today. Very Good. A. R. Fleming & Co unknown
1993132 pages. Features: Is the Metropolitan Vancouver Economy Uncoupling from the rest of the province?; British Columbia's Private Sector in Recession, 1981-86 - Employment flexibility without Trade Diversification?; Sharks and Red Herrings - Vancouver's Male Employment Agencies, 1898-1915; Bibliography of British Columbia. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1887rif. 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 books
1887rif. 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
1999rif. 500230165ATELIER 1999 16 2x0 8x22 8cm. 1999. Broché.
rif. 139670115X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. wx501INSEE, UA CNRS 915 Atlas social des Pays de la Loire Feuilles sous chemise et emboitage Trois volumes in-4 (43x32.5 cm), feuilles sous chemises illustrées, 3 fascicules publiés en 1985, 1986 et 1987, nombreuses cartes ; chemises un peu jaunies, coiffes un peu frottées, bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1747rif. ABC_47930Amsterdam 1747. Folio. Wed. J. van Egmont en Zoon Contemporary half vellum sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints marbled paper over boards with a heart shaped printed title-label on the front board green ties. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and 2 decorated woodcut initials in the text. 2 2 blank 53 3 blank pp. Very rare work with the terms of employment of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie VOC. It contains 121 clauses with rules of conduct and an extra chapter with formularies of oaths. This second revised edition was published after some changes had been made to the rules in 1747. This VOC publication is very rare. It is available in just a few libraries and we have only been able to trace one other copy in sales records of the past 100 years.The clauses deal with everything an employee of the VOC could face during employment. They explain exactly who is in charge how to deal with religion on board of the ships when and how payment of wages takes place what the VOC pays in case of injury or death how to climb in rank rations on the ships the repercussions of illegal trading and the rights of former employees. The VOC struggled with staff shortages throughout the 18th century but the situation became especially dire from 1744 onwards. This was in part because the VOC was not known to be a good employer. The present publication can likely be seen as an attempt by the VOC to improve its image as an employer and attract more staff.With an additional loose large square title-label added before the front flyleaf and with the blindstamp of a previous owner "Gulden Passer - Labores et Constantia - HV" on the front and back free flyleaves. As usual the title has been extended with a slip-cancel mounted under the title partially covering the printers device. The edges of the boards are slightly scuffed. The front endpapers the title page and following blank leaf have been reinforced in the gutter with paper the endpapers are slightly browned with a small brown stain on the title-page and first blank leaf. Overall in very good condition.l Landwehr VOC 940; STCN 17341558X 6 copies; WorldCat 48255045 1200508712 7 copies; cf. Schimmel R. De VOC als werkgever. Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de invloed van de VOC op maritieme arbeidsmarkten in Azië master thesis 2023. hardcover
2023rif. __1526524007Bloomsbury Professional 2023. Paperback. New. 520 pages. 9.13x6.30x1.18 inches. Bloomsbury Professional paperback
2024rif. __1526527987Bloomsbury Professional 2024. Paperback. New. 0 edition. 704 pages. 0.04x0.04x0.04 inches. Bloomsbury Professional paperback
2025rif. __152653116XBloomsbury Professional IE 2025. Paperback. New. 544 pages. 0.04x6.14x9.21 inches. Bloomsbury Professional (IE) paperback
2022rif. __1526520230Bloomsbury Professional 2022. Paperback. New. 704 pages. 0.04x0.04x0.04 inches. Bloomsbury Professional paperback
2021rif. __1526513633Bloomsbury Professional 2021. Paperback. New. 896 pages. 0.04x0.04x0.04 inches. Bloomsbury Professional paperback
2016rif. __178451182XBloomsbury Professional 2016. Paperback. New. 686 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. Bloomsbury Professional paperback
2020rif. __1526509709Bloomsbury Professional 2020. Paperback. New. 896 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.65 inches. Bloomsbury Professional paperback
2019rif. __1526506629Bloomsbury Professional 2019. Paperback. New. 792 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.89 inches. Bloomsbury Professional paperback
