Wages: One of a Series of Lectures on Political Economy, delivered the past season before the student of Comer's Commercial College, Boston, by the Hon. Amasa Walker, late Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Boston: Comer's Commercial College, [1852?]. Pamphlet. Pp.9-16, disbound pamphlet, 8.5x5 inches, acidic newsprint item once sewn (stab-holes remain) and now simply laid together. Complete text, a reading copy only, very toned and somewhat fragile with accession markings, dust-soil, faint staining. As is. Dated, by the way, from an old penciled note, 1852 with a query mark. Walker is pro-capital and also gives reasons, pp.14-16, why an elevation of women's wages would be unwise, here's one such notion: "No attempt to enhance her wages by appeals to human sympathies need ever be attempted, for there is a law which overrides all of these, the law of supply and demand; a law founded in nature; inexorable and immutable" &c &c.
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Price: $20.00