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The Black Worker : The Negro and the Labor Movement.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. Hardcover. 8vo (8.875” x 6.25”), gilt black cloth. x, 509 pp. Presentation inscription by author in ink at ffep: “For Mr. Laurence J. W. Hayes. Abram L. Harris. Howard University. April 19th 1939.” Bookplate of Laurence J. W. Hayes at front paste down as well as ownership inscription in ink: “Laurence J. W. Hayes. Howard University.” CONDITION: Good, some wear to extremities, bookseller’s ticket at ffep, contents underlined and annotated in ink throughout, apparently by Hayes, offsetting at pp. 438–39 where newspaper clipping was laid in, lacking dj. First edition. Inscribed by co-author Abram L. Harris. The work is “an effort to set forth descriptively and analytically the results of a study of the American labor movement in… the relation of the dominant section of the working class to the segregated, circumscribed and restricted Negro minority.” Abram L. Harris (1899–1963) was an economist and social critic, one of the first prominent African American scholars in the field. Harris was head of the economics department at Howard University from 1936 to 1945, when he became a professor at the University of Chicago, a position he held until his death. Sterling D. Spero (1896–1976), co-author, was professor of public administration at New York University, a specialist on employment in public service. Laurence J. W. Hayes was a government worker and journalist based in Washington, DC. A native of New Orleans, Hayes received his MA in history from Howard University and went on to publish The Negro Federal Government Worker in 1941, an examination of the systemic barriers faced by African American employees in the federal workforce over the preceding half century. During World War II, Hayes served in the Marine Corps as part of the first group of Black marines. REFERENCES: Blockson 2459; “Abram L. Harris, Economist, Dead; Professor at University of Chicago Wrote on Negro, ” The New York Times, November 17, 1963, p. 87; “Sterling Spero of N.Y. U. Dead; Public Administration Professor” The New York Times, January 4, 1976, p. 47; “Laurence J. W. Hayes” at The Louisiana Weekly, June 29, 1935, p. 4.
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Price: $750.00
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