Isbn: 9780906191071 - second report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the truck system (shetland), 1872 (3 risultati)

Half-Cloth. Condizione: Very Good++. No Jacket. Limited Edition. (viii) + 56pp. Limited edition (#72 of 100). Paper-covered marbled boards with maroon cloth backstrip and corners and gilt lettering to spine, in a clear plastic cover, eps marbled as boards. Facsimile edition of 1872 original, published by Thuleprint in 1978. Some rubbing to plastic cover, light edgewear, otherwise excellent. New introduction by Hance D. Smith. …

hardcover. 1978 reprint. 56pp, Fine. No.61 of a Limited Edition of 100 copies. A most attractive copy. Reprint of the First Edition originally published in 1872. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Thuleprint, Sandwick, Shetland, 1978 being a facsimile reprint, and with a new introduction by Hance Smith, of the original printed in Edinburgh by Murray and Gibb for HMSO, 1872. Folio, pp viii, 56; this is number 79 of a limited edition of 100 hand bound copies; quarter maroon buckram, spine gilt, marbled boards, the binding designed by Jenny Gunn; fine copy. The truck system, one of paying wages in kind rather than with money, was a national rather than a purely local approach and had been addressed by the Truck Act of 1831 which basically prohibited the payment of wages in kind. However, by 1872 there were concerns that the system still continued in different areas and a Commission was established which held sittings around the UK to take evidence. Shetland wasn't unique in this regards but its main industries were fishing and hosiery and knitwear production, together with kelp gathering, crofting and other minor economic activities, and there were therefore understandable reasons relating to the need for credit and, in the case of fish merchants, access to steady supplies. These circumstances together with the general and long established practice of barter in a subsistence economy meant that aspects of the truck system continued. According to the introduction by Smith this very readable report, drawing on evidence gathered in the same year as the publication of Marx's "Capital" and at a time when Shetland society was on the cusp of economic change, remains very relevant in the economic conditions prevailing today well beyond Shetland itself.…