First edition thus, presumably the first appearance of Moody’s pamphlet on unemployment, the copyright for which is dated 1877; another edition was issued in the same year with reference to a paper, delivered at the annual meeting of the American Social Science Association on 24 May, regarding the displacement of labour by machinery, which apparently caused Moody some bother and forced him to issue a ‘note’ with the pamphlet stating that he was not against machinery. The annotator of this copy has noted that ‘machinery helps all round’. To the rear of this copy there is a folded petition, the ‘Memorial to the President and Congress of the United States’, which, Moody states, is ‘for circulation and signature … every person into whose hands it may come, whether man or woman, is earnestly requested not only to sign it, but also to obtain the signatures of every member of the family, and acquaintances, and forward the same to the subscriber … and thus render great assistance in obtaining a popular demand upon the General Government to act.’