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MOODY, W. GODWIN, Our Labor Difficulties: The Cause, and the Way Out: including the Paper on the Displacement of Labor by Improvements in Machinery by a Committee appointed by the American Social Science Association, composed of Lorin Blodget, of Philadelphia, Rev. Edward E. Hale, W. Godwin Moody, John J. McNutt and H. C. Turner of Boston and read before the Association at their Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, May 24, 1878.
Boston: A. Williams & Co, 1878. (INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION) First edition. 8vo. . Original printed wrappers, with the folding "Circular" tipped into the front and the "Note" from the author tipped in preceeding the title page. Some browning of wrappers, a few short tears in the margins of the "Note" else a very good copy of this pamphlet. With the signature of the Rev. M. Israel on the upper cover. ¶ Moody's "Paper on the Displacement of Labor by Improvements in Machinery" met with a mixed reception. Some felt that he was against machinery and to correct this misunderstanding Moody had the "Note" inserted into each copy which stated his belief : "that in machinery we have the greatest power for good that man ever possessed, that it should be fully and perfectly developed and so increased and used as to reduce to the lowest point his physical toil, but not so as to deprive him of employment, create idleness and consequent demoralization of all interests"
Offered for US$ 250.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 25025