Author: LLOYD, HENRY DEMAREST (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM PEMBER REEVES)
Title: A Country without Strikes a Visit to the Compulsory Arbitration Court of New Zealand
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. Early printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine of the book has noticeable toning / sunning, along with some foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front pastedown page. "Lloyd was one of the precursors to the later muckraker journalists, writing a searing exposé of the monopolistic abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, "The Story of a Great Monopoly," published in the March 1881 issue of The Atlantic. He later fleshed out his case against the unbridled corporate power of Standard Oil and similar corporations in his best-known book, Wealth Against Commonwealth, published in 1894. Lloyd's work thus preceded Ida Tarbell's more famous 1904 work, "The History of Standard Oil," by a number of years." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Politics Henry Demarest Lloyd William Pember Reeves New Zealand Labor Relations / Radicalism Politics
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Title: A Country without Strikes a Visit to the Compulsory Arbitration Court of New Zealand
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. Early printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine of the book has noticeable toning / sunning, along with some foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front pastedown page. "Lloyd was one of the precursors to the later muckraker journalists, writing a searing exposé of the monopolistic abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, "The Story of a Great Monopoly," published in the March 1881 issue of The Atlantic. He later fleshed out his case against the unbridled corporate power of Standard Oil and similar corporations in his best-known book, Wealth Against Commonwealth, published in 1894. Lloyd's work thus preceded Ida Tarbell's more famous 1904 work, "The History of Standard Oil," by a number of years." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Politics Henry Demarest Lloyd William Pember Reeves New Zealand Labor Relations / Radicalism Politics
Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 37266
- Book number: 37266
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