THE STORY OF MANUAL LABOR IN ALL LANDS AND AGES by Simonds, John Cameron; McEnnis, John T. (prefaces by T. V. Powderly; Judge T. M. Cooley; and George May Powell) - 1887

Chicago: R. S. Peale, 1887. (xxxiv) 715 pp. Brown cloth illustrated in dark brown, green and gilt on the front panel; illustrated in dark brown on the spine; decorated endpapers; headband; illustrated with engraved portraits along with charts and diagrams; colour frontis. The full title is: THE STORY OF MANUAL LABOR IN ALL LANDS AND AGES: Its Past Condition Present Progress and Hope for the Future - The Lights and Shadows of History in Contrast. A Complete Pen Picture of the Wage Worker from a Social Political and Economical Standpoint together with an Account of the Unions Guilds and Associations Organized for His Benefit and Protection. Light rubbing on the corners with some fading on the front panel; some darkening around the edges of the text block; the first few pages and the last few pages have some foxing; the front hinge is a bit loose near the bottom; the rear hinge is tight; gutters intact. The Chapters are: Part One: Labor in the Orient: India; China; Japan. Part Two: Labor in Antiquity: Egypt; Palestine; Chaldea and Assyria; Persia; Greece; Tyre - Sidon - Carthage; Rome. Part Three: Labor in the Middle Ages: General Survey; Italy; Spain; Germany; France; England. Part Four: Labor in the Modern World: Germany; England; Scotland; Wales; Ireland; France; Belgium; Spain; Portugal; Italy; Austro-Hungary; Holland; Switzerland; Scandinavia; Russia; Modern Greece; The Ottoman Empire; Modern Persia. Part Five: Labor in America: Introduction; The Colonies; Free America; The Nineteenth Century; The Formative Period; The New Era; The Events of 1886; The Field of the Trades Union; Strikes in Theory and Practice; The Rivals of American Labor; The Army of the Discontented by T. A. Powderly; Mexico; Central America; The West Indies; South America. Part Six: Guilds and Trades Unions: Merchant Guilds; Craft Guilds; Decline of the Craft Guilds; English Trades Unions; Continental Trades Unions; Labor Unions in the United States; The Knights of Labor; and Labor Unions in the United States - Concluded.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Book.