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367 Pp. Blue Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. Stated Third Printing, 1937 (Copyright 1936). Wear, Spine Lettering Strong, Small Frays At Corners, Short Tear To Cloth At Bottom Of Front Cover, Tiny Former Owner's Name. Economic Analysis Of Clear Perception And Social Concern, But Implicitly Seeking To Remodel The Us Into Russia, A Country Which For 1200 Years Has Been Ruled Exclusively From The Top Down By Autocrats With Near Absolute Power Over A Tiny Aristocratic Class And A Vast Managed Majority With No More Real Political Or Economic Freedoms Than Slaves. Anna Rochester (1880 1966) Was An American Labor Reformer, Journalist, Political Activist, And Communist. She Was The Daughter Of Roswell Hart Rochester, An Executive Who Worked As Treasurer Of The Western Union Telegraph Company; .Her Father's Paternal Grandfather, Nathaniel Rochester, Was The Namesake And Founder Of The City Of Rochester, New York. The Summer Of 1904 She Spent At A New Resort, Philbrook Farm Of Shelburne, New Hampshire. It Was There That Rochester Met Vida Dutton Scudder, A Political Activist Motivated By The Social Gospel, And Her Lesbian Partner, The Writer Florence Converse.The Connection Proved Both Politically And Socially Illuminating. A Male Suitor Was Turned Away In 1907, And A Return To Philbrook Farm In 1908 Invigorated Rochester's Interest In Sociology And The Ongoing Progressive Campaign To Ameliorate The Ills Of Modern Industrial Society.Her Discovery That Same Summer Of Walter Rauschenbusch's Seminal Book, Christianity And The Social Crisis, Completed Rochester's Conversion From Socialite To Social Activist. From 1912 Until 1915, Rochester Worked As A Researcher And For The Publicity Department Of The National Child Labor Committee, A Private Non-Profit Organization Established In 1904 To Help End Child Labor. Rochester Continued In This Same Area In 1915 When She Moved To The United States Children's Bureau, A Government Agency Created In 1912, Where She Again Worked On Research And Publications. She Would Remain With The Us Children's Bureau Through 1921. In 1922 Rochester Assumed The Editorship Of The World Tomorrow, A Christian Socialist Monthly Magazine Which Had Been Founded In 1918 By The Pacifism Fellowship Of Reconciliation And Which Was Formerly Edited By Future Socialist Party Leader Norman Thomas. Although For Several Years An Editor Of The Liberal Monthly The World Tomorrow, Rochester Is Best Remembered As A Co-Founder Of The Labor Research Association, A Bureau Which Collected And Interpreted Labor Statistics In Close Coordination With The Communist Party Usa. In The 21St Century Rochester Became The Subject Of Academic Interest For The Duality Of Her Public Political Activity With Successful Maintenance Of A Long-Term Same-Sex Affectionate Relationship With Fellow Communist Grace Hutchins, A Relationship Considered Taboo According To The Social Mores Of The Day. Although The Pair Lived As Partners For Over 40 Years, Rochester Never Self-Identified As A Lesbian.
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