Labor Saving Machinery (Twentieth Century Library No. 60 - February 1895)

New York, NY: The Humboldt Publishing Co.. Offered is Issue No. 60 of "Twentieth Century Library: Published Monthly" (February 1895) published by The Humboldt Publishing Co. out of New York City (this is the same company that published "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine"). This issue features the topic "Labor Saving Machinery" by Dingman Versteeg. A small magazine measuring nearly 5" by 7-1/4" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are: Introduction; Cities; Civilization; Political Supremacy; The Good Old Times; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Commerce; Art; Stores; Employment; Woman and Child Labor; Difference in Wages; Over-Production; and The Labor Question. In support of labor-saving machinery, the author writes: "It is to production-increasing appliances therefore, to the inventors, that the workers must first of all look for a radical improvement in their condition in the future, as they have already done much for them in the past. The emancipation of the toilers is primarily a question of production. With little product, only small distribution, and consequently low wages, with all their attending misery. It is on this account, also, that the workingmen act against their own interests when opposing the introduction of improved labor saving devices. Experience has shown that the nations which are most advanced in this respect, are the ones where the workers are most prosperous and influential. Consequently to oppose what leads to prosperity and influence is, in reality, to put back the time for the solution of the labor problem, and the emancipation of the toilers." An ex-library copy with minor markings: small, clear embossed stamp to title page, small five-digit number to copyright page, and Dewey Decimal number to front cover; most of the narrow outer spine cover has chipped away; water stains to lower left front cover and lower right rear cover; small edge chip to rear cover; three tiny hole punches to blank margins. Tightly bound and internal pages clean. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1895.