Robert H Babcock (71 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. x, 292pp., index, biblio., notes, appendices, ill. Light to moderate edgewear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

PB. 292pp ISBN 0802062423 This book is a significant addition to Canadian and American labour history and to the study of American expansion. very good, wraps (softcover) small nick top of spine. B&W illustrations (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A little reading wear. Some pencil MARKINGS in text. Otherwise a square, tight book.

Paperback. x, 292p., front., illus., wraps slightly shelf worn else very good condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing Canadian workers. Within a very short time the Canadian labour movement was rationalized into a segment of the American craft-union empire. In order to secure the loyalty of these new recruits, the AFI reduced the national trade-union centre of Canada, the Trades and Labor Congress, to the level of an American state federation of labour. But Gombers failed to perceive the different political, historical, and cultural climates north of the forty-ninth parallel, and his policies inevitably generated friction. Although some Canadian workers felt sympathy for labour politicians inspired by left-wing doctrines and the social gospel movement, Gompers strove to keep Canadian socialists at bay. And although Canadian workers expressed considerable interest in governmental investigation of industrial disputes, Gompers remained inimical to such moves. Canadian labour groups desired a seat on international labour bodies, but Gompers would not allow them to speak through their own delegate. Canadian unions deemed rivals to AFL affiliates were banished. Dues were siphoned off into union treasuries in the US, and American labour leaders kept firm control over organizing efforts in Canada. Perhaps most importance, the AFL's actions at the TLC convention of 1902-its opposition to dual unionism-helped spawn a separate labour movement in Quebec. Yet by 1914, following nearly two decades of effort by Gompers, many Canadian workers had become his willing subjects. Though others struggled to loosen Gompers' grip on the Canadian labour movement, Canadian trade unions appeared firmly wedded to the AFL's continentalism. The story of Gompers in Canada has never been properly treated: this book is a significant addition to Canadian and American labour history and to the study of American expansion. Based upon exhaustive research in the Gompers papers, the AFL-CIO archives, and in various Canadian manuscript and newspaper sources, it clearly reveals one importance aspect of the growth of American's 'informal' empire at the turn of the century.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. pp. 306.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 809p octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in red cloth. light pencilling across the bottom edge.

Condition: New. pp. 306.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Stated first edition; (1) last page text. Very gooo. Hardcover, half (spine and corners) tan calf leather and maroon simulated morocco cloth, index, 890 pp + 2 pp ads, illustrated with 12 color plates and 104 in text drawings. Leather scuffed, several chips at head and foot of spine (1/2 inch or less) , starting to crack along front joint, corners bumped. Internally, prv own sgn, presentation plate to Hanhamann Medical College by Dr. Walter E. Harvey, Class 1879, rubber stamp of Hanhamann Library on front and rear endpapers, with pinpricked seal on t. P. , text lightly age yellowed, o/w tight, clean, crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Medicine; tuberculosis.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.