Great Depression (44 results)

Paper Covers. Stapled Binding. Condition: Very Good Condition. The cove is a photograph of East aYork civic workers in the Great Depression. (illustrator). 73pp. Content clean, bright and sound. This pamphlet is in very good condition with covers showing very minor soil. Photos available on request.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Tight, unmarked; This book was written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young Canadians faced with the same prospects of unemployment, prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader.

Condition: Fine. First edition first printing hardcover Fine in fine dust jacket SIGNED INSCRIBED TO ROBERT DAN A COUSIN BY NAIL ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE also includes a long two page letter by Nail to Robert Dan detailing family news.

Condition: New.

First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 29pp. Moderate soil to covers; internally clean and unmarked. Very Good. Analysis of the international labor market and the worldwide great depression, from a revolutionary Socialist perspective. The anonymous author contrasts the failures of Capitalism against the advances of the Soviet Union under the Five Year Plan. Printed in England but with the imprint of Workers Library Publishers, the publishing arm of the SLP.

First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 35pp. Brief pencil annotation to front cover, else Fine. On the mission and accomplishments of the Depression-era National Resources Committee, the successor entity to the National Planning Board of the Public Works Administration.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Full printer's code 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains 382 pp with some monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £18.99. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.

First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers w/ pictorial dustjacket; 152p; illus. A clean, tight copy in the uncommon pictorial jacket, lightly rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Extensively illustrated with halftones, uncredited but clearly of WPA/FSA lineage. An explication and defense of federal work-relief programs, written at the height of the Depression by the famous hobo sociologist Nels Anderson (who also wrote under the pseudonym "Dean Stiff").

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 72 pages. Circa 1982-83. Perhaps the first book to be written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young families faced with the same prospects of unemployment, has prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 164pp; tables; 1 chart (folding). Tight, Near Fine copy in the uncommon dustwrapper, mildly toned on spine and with a tiny loss at upper flap-fold, otherwise quite clean and crisp. Sociological and statistical study of women's work in the Great Depression, conducted under the aegis of the American Woman's Association of New York. Lorine Pruette (1896-1977) was a Columbia-trained social psychologist whose later work included periods at the Bureau of Economic Research and the Office of War Information (as a consultant on broadcast propaganda).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth boards, dustjacket; 798p. Volume in Near Fine condition, with dusting & faint foxing to text block edges. In original dustjacket which is however somewhat worn, with small marginal losses and closed tears, age-toning to spine; Good only. Elementary economics textbook published at the height of the Great Depression, clearly intended as a primer for an American public forced for the first time to comprehend economic dysfunction on a catastrophic scale. Much on New Deal monetary & fiscal policy, social spending, etc, as well as discussion of the failures of Wall Street. Uncommon.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); pictorial cloth with matching pictorial dustjacket; 350pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn jacket with brief losses at crown of spine. A Brooklyn family on relief relocates to dustbowl-era Oklahoma, where they organize local farmers to stage a sit-down strike for redistribution of food and land. Based on actual events. Rothermell authored several well-written novels, and worked on the New York Federal Writers' Project. HANNA 3076. BLAKE p.270.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First Edition. xii, 483pp. Sewn binding in red cloth hard covers with gilt-lettered spine and front cover. 16 B/W photos throughout. Tips worn. Owner's name and inscription to FFEP. Speckled ink stains to end papers and front matter. Small stain to back of front cover. 'This is a history of the evolution of financial power in the United States since 1900. It shows to what extent this vial power became concentrated, what sort of men wielded in, what instruments of conquest they used, and what were the economic and social effects of their preeminence in American life. In a sense the book is the story of Wall Street and all that it (and the other nuclei of financial power) represented. In another sense it is the story of the American upper class. In another, broader sense it is the story of the economic changes which led inevitably to the crash of 1929 and the lean years of the ninteen-thirties [sic]: the story of how we reached the plight we are now in.'.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. RARE report on the Dust Bowl Great Depression Migration of "Destitute Citizens" Esther Cole Franklin. America's "Migrant" Problem. Part of the "Contemporary America" series (April 1941) vol II no. VI published by the American Association of University Women, "Social Studies Series". Washington, DC, 1941. 9"x 6", 23pp (including a 5pp section on suggested reading (which includes a reference to Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's "American Exodus"). NO COPIES are located in WorldCat. Original wrappers slightly dusted. Provenance: Pamphlet Collection, Library of Congress (with their rubber stamp on the bottom of the front cover). Printed on a heavier stock. VG condition. [++ There is a significant amount of thinking that went into this thin publication, with Franklin clearly moving in the direction of federal and regional (and local) help and aid and care for the "migrant" folks living in a mobile world "on the edge of existence". This is a caring and thoughtful appraisal of the migration of "our destitute citizens".

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket;maroon top-stain; 614pp. A tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear and with the top-stain deep and even. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly worn with a few tiny chips at extremities, spine panel subtly sun-darkened, Very Good+. The author's first novel, set in the halls of political and financial power in an unnamed midwestern state, in the fictional city of "Oklarada," during the Great Depression. Though not explicitly identified, events are clearly based on White's native state of Kansas. He was the son of Kansas newspaperman and agrarian populist William Allen White. HANNA 3769.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy, fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel, couple of small dust-smudges, else Fine. The jacket spine, which is very prone to darkening on this title, is bright and unfaded.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Illustrated paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 118pp; illus. Boards faded at outer margins, rubbed on edges; brief dusting to edges of text block; Very Good. In the scarce pictorial jacket, price-clipped and with small losses at spine ends; about Very Good. Humorous mock-juvenile Depression novel (somewhat in the vein of Ring Lardner's The Young Immigrunts) in which an orphan is raised by his uncle, a professional grifter. Played for humor, but a gritty work.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 63 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 5 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act provided for an 8-hour work day and 48-hour work week for industrial workers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 59 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 10 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act created a commission to oversee the administration of laws regarding combinations in restraint of trade (including mergers, trusts and monopolies) and other unfair business practices that were extremely detrimental to the public.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 58 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act introduced the first national housing policy. Despite demands for affordable housing from social reformers, the Act ended up setting the tone for all future housing legislation with the provision of loans for wealthier Canadians and promotion of homeownership and mortgage lending infrastructure. Some 3,263 mortgage loans were administered through the program between 1935 and 1938.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 53 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 6 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Wheat production and sales were hugely influential on the domestic economy of Canada. This Act made provisions for the establishment of a Canadian Wheat Board, and empowered it to buy wheat from producers at a minimum price to be fixed by the agency. Upon delivery to the Board, producers would receive the fixed minimum together with participation certificates which entitled the holders to a pro rata share of the net marketing profits received by the Board during a crop year. If the Board was unable to sell the wheat at a profit over the fixed minimum, the government would absorb the loss. Producers still had the option of selling to the Board at the fixed minimum or to private traders at current market price.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 44 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 5 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. By this Act, the government was authorized to create and operate a federal agency for fixing minimum wages in manufacturing and commerce as applicable to workers over the age of 16 years. The Act was intended to operate where no arrangements existed for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreements or otherwise, and where wages were exceptionally low.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 39 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act stipulated that fair wages were to be paid to all persons employed on public works (including those to which federal aid has been granted by way of contribution, subsidy, loan, advance, or guarantee), and hours were to be limited to eight per day and forty-four per week.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 38 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 38 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act was designed to establish a national employment and social insurance commission, a national employment service, a national unemployment insurance program, and national health insurance plan. The legislation promised a minimum wage, federal regulation of working hours and conditions, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, and an enhanced old-age pension scheme, among other measures. However, as many of these measures infringed upon provincial authority (as outlined by the British North America Act, 1867; 30 & 31 Victoria, Chapter 3; U.K.)they were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada and never put into practice.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 14 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act stipulated that industrial workers were entitled to a rest of at least 24 consecutive hours in every seven days, on Sunday wherever possible.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 21 & 22 George V, Chapter 58 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 2 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume. This Act was follow-up legislation to the Unemployment Relief Act of the prior year and was designed to help deal with the ongoing world wide economic depression and recent wheat crop failures in western Canada. The Act provided financial assistance to municipalities and the provinces for public works, farming activities, and debt maintenance, while maintaining peace, order and good government throughout Canada.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 21 George V, Chapter 1 (Statutes of Canada). General title leaf with Royal coat of arms; caption title, 2 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act, passed in response to the severe economic conditions and widespread unemployment caused by the Great Depression, allocated $20 million for relief initiatives. Some aid came in the form of vouchers for food, clothing and shelter, but most relief came in the form of municipal public works projects (such as railways, roads, bridges, canals, and wharves). Money was also directed to provinces and municipalities to reimburse them for unemployment relief costs.

First Edition. Good paperback copies only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall despite minor wear and tear. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 34 cm. Contents; pt. 1 Minutes of evidence and appendix -- pt. 2. Appendix. Subjects; Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Financial crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 4 Kg.

First Edition. Good paperback copies only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall despite minor wear and tear. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 34 cm. Contents; pt. 1 Minutes of evidence and appendix -- pt. 2. Appendix. Subjects; Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Financial crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 3 Kg.