john nicholas beffel (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Cartoonists, Humor, Autobiography) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good- dj. Illustrated by (photographic dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. [solid copy, bottom corners bumped but no other significant wear, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has some paper loss at bottom of spine and along bottom edge of rear panel (publisher's name slightly affected on spine), miscellaneous small tears, vertical crease near right-hand edge of front panel, spine somewhat faded]. Memoir by one of America's outstanding labor organizers. Born in Ukraine, she came to the U.S. in 1913 to escape an arranged marriage, landed a job in a New York garment factory, and soon became a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; by the early 1930s she had assumed a position on the staff of the union, and was often assigned to organize workers outside the NYC area. In 1933, she was instrumental in organizing garment workers in Los Angeles (many of whom were Mexican immigrants), and her success led to her appointment as vice-president of the union, a post she held from 1934 to 1944, when she resigned from its executive board because she didn't want to be the token woman on the board when women made up 85% of the organization's membership. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Photo Portait& Prpf. Illus. In Text (illustrator). Lg. 8vo. Red pictorial cl. w. gilt illus. to cover, gilt lettering and. illus. to backstr., sl. dulled. Sm. dampstaining on upper margins, o.w. VG. Illus. endpapers. Prof. illus. 467pp. incl. Index. HEAVY BOOK; MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES.