Knights Of Labor from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

New Arrivals

The labor movement; the problem of to-day. The history, purpose and possibilities of labor organizations in Europe and America; guilds, trades-unions, and Knights of Labor; wages and profits; hours of labor; functions of capital, Chinese labor; competition; arbitration; profit-sharing and co-operation; principles of the Knights of Labor; moral and educational aspects of the labor question

Show Details

Description:
Boston: A.M. Bridgman & Co, 1887. Hardcover. xiv, [vi], 615, [xii]p., illustrated boards, front., illus., tissue guards for the illustrations are browned with offsetting on facing pages, corners bumped, boards rubbed and unevenly toned, board illustrations dimmed, endpapers slightly soiled, rear paste-down endpaper is somewhat peeling off, white substance on back board. Associate editors included Terence V. Powderly, Henry… Read more about this item
Item Price
€23.34
Knights Unhorsed; Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement

Knights Unhorsed; Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement

by Weir, Robert E.

Condition
Used
Published
2000
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780814328736
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€16.81

Show Details

Description:
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Hardcover. 228p., near fine condition in like dustjacket.
Item Price
€16.81
Are we free men? From the Monitor of April 29, 1886 [leaflet]

Are we free men? From the Monitor of April 29, 1886 [leaflet]

Condition
Used
Published
1886
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€14.01

Show Details

Description:
n.p., 1886. 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet, printed both sides, creased and toned, with a long split along the vertical fold, going almost the length of the sheet. Calls on the reader to vote for prohibition. "The Knights of Labor are right in their declaration of principles, but they will never succeed while they themselves help divert according to actual revenue… Read more about this item
Item Price
€14.01
[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of Terence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor]
More Photos

[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of Terence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor]

Condition
Used
Published
[188-]
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€70.04

Show Details

Description:
Philadelphia: Vail Brothers, [188-]. Stiff card, slightly larger than 4x6.25 inches, with Powderly's portrait (a sepia photograph from the negative) on one side and text about Ideal Tooth Powder and Ideal Quinine and Sulphur Toilet Soap on the other. Plate measures 3.5x5 inches; his moustache about 1.3 inches from left to right twirl. Very good. One of a series… Read more about this item
Item Price
€70.04
American labor; a pictorial social history

American labor; a pictorial social history

by Schnapper, M.B. [Morris Bartel]

Condition
Used
Published
1972
Binding
Paperback
ISBN
9780818302442
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€14.01

Show Details

Description:
Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1972. Paperback. 574p., mildy worn wraps, spine creased, profusely illus., 8.5x11 inches.
Item Price
€14.01
Knights of Labor at prices that will please you [advertising broadside]

Knights of Labor at prices that will please you [advertising broadside]

by [Knights of Labor]

Condition
Used
Published
[188-?]
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€140.07

Show Details

Description:
Chicago: B.F. Norris, Alister & Co, [188-?]. 6x13.25 inch broadside on pink paper, illustrating eleven different pins and charms manufactured by the Chicago jeweler; creased from having been folded, with light toning. Undated, but this firm appears to have dealt of K of L merchandise in the late 1880s. Targeted to the trade, with wholesale prices listed. "These are… Read more about this item
Item Price
€140.07
Dreaming of what might be: the Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900

Dreaming of what might be: the Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900

by Kealey, Gregory S. and Bryan D. Palmer

Condition
Used
Published
1987
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780521244305
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€28.01

Show Details

Description:
Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1987. Hardcover. xiv, 487p., preface, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, tables, figures and maps, very good first edition in brick cloth boards and gilt. No dj.
Item Price
€28.01
Dr. Hand's remedies for children, colic cure, pleasant physic, worm exlixer..
More Photos

Dr. Hand's remedies for children, colic cure, pleasant physic, worm exlixer..

by [Powderly, Terence V.] and David B. Hand

Condition
Used
Published
1886
Binding
Handbill leaflet
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€70.04

Show Details

Description:
Scranton, PA: Dr. D.B. Hand, 1886. handbill leaflet. Small, 4x5 inch card, color-litho illustration of children with chickens on one side, verso is text, featuring an endorsement from T.V. Powderly, leader of the Knights of Labor of Dr. Hand's cures. This chromo-lith a reasonably complex treatment with five to ten onlaid colors, is a not quite saccharine treatment of… Read more about this item
Item Price
€70.04
From the Knights of Labor to the new world order: essays on labor and culture

From the Knights of Labor to the new world order: essays on labor and culture

by Buhle, Paul

Condition
Used
Published
1997
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780815322252
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€23.34

Show Details

Description:
New York: Garland, 1997. Hardcover. xviii, 258p., quarter-cloth boards, very good condition. No dj, as issued. Labor in America Vol. 3 / Garland Reference Library of Social Science Vol. 1089.
Item Price
€23.34
The great southwest strike

The great southwest strike

by Allen, Ruth A.

Condition
Used
Published
1942
Binding
Paperback
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€56.03

Show Details

Description:
Austin: The University of Texas, 1942. Paperback. 174p., preface, appendix, bibliography, index, illustrations, one fold-out illustrations, paperback in printed cream wraps slightly worn, previous owner's name on front wrap, The University of Texas Publication, no. 4214. April 8, 1942.
Item Price
€56.03
Labor History. vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1978

Labor History. vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1978

by Leab, Daniel, ed

Condition
Used
Published
1978
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€9.34

Show Details

Description:
New York: The Tamiment Institute, 1978. pp. 325-478, wraps. Complete issue. Includes Leon Fink on on the Knights of Labor and opposition politics in Richmond, Virginia, Chad Gaffield on the socialist movement in Schenectady, Erik Olssen on railroad unions and politics , Amy Gottlieb on influence of British trade unionists on regulation of mining industry in Illinois, 1872, etc.… Read more about this item
Item Price
€9.34
Ferment in labor

Ferment in labor

by Wolf, Jerome

Condition
Used
Published
1968
Binding
Paperback
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€11.21

Show Details

Description:
Beverly Hills: The Glencoe Press, 1968. Paperback. 137p., wraps, light handling wear, else very good condition. The insight series. Short history of labor with sections on the Knights of Labor, IWW, AFL and the CIO.
Item Price
€11.21
Workers and dissent in the Redwood Empire

Workers and dissent in the Redwood Empire

by Cornford, Daniel A.

Condition
Used
Published
1987
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780877224990
Quantity Available
1
Seller
San Francisco, California, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€12.14

Show Details

Description:
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Hardcover. x, 276p., very good condition in like dust jacket.
Item Price
€12.14
The Burlington strike: its motives and methods, including the causes of the strike, remote and direct, and the relations to it, of the organizations of Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive Firemen, Switchman's M.A.A., and action taken by Order Brotherhood R.R. Brakemen, Order Railway Conductors, and Knights of Labor. The great dynamite conspiracy; ending with a sketch by C.H. Frisbie; forty-seven years on a locomotive

Show Details

Description:
Aurora, Ill: Press of Bunnell and Ward, 1889. Hardcover. 480p., illus., edges of cover very badly worn, hinges reinforced with old cloth tape, internal soiling and staining, a crack developing in the textblock.
Item Price
€56.03