LE PLAY, Frédéric.
EMERSON, Gouverneur, translator. The organization of labor in accordance with custom and the law of the Decalogue; with a summary of comparative observations upon good and evil in the regime of labor, the causes of evils existing at the present time, and the means required to effect reform; with objections and answers, difficulties and solutions. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872.
8vo, pp. xxiii, [1 blank], 25-417, [1 blank]; foxing to first and last few leaves, else a very good copy in original brown embossed cloth, lightly rubbed, spine gilt; contemporary bookplate to front pastedown of H. Wilson Harding.
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EMERSON, Gouverneur, translator. The organization of labor in accordance with custom and the law of the Decalogue; with a summary of comparative observations upon good and evil in the regime of labor, the causes of evils existing at the present time, and the means required to effect reform; with objections and answers, difficulties and solutions.
First edition in English of Le Play’s L’organisation du travail (1870). Emerson was a Quaker doctor who eventually gave up his practice to devote himself to political economy, hence the slightly unexpected appearance of this first translation in Philadelphia, where Emerson lived. He died suddenly in 1874.