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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Steel: The Diary of a Furnace WorkerIn the summer of 1919, a few weeks before the Great Steel Strike, I bought some second-hand clothes and went to work on an open-hearth furnace near Pittsburgh to learn the steel business. I was a graduate of Yale, and a few weeks before had resigned a commission as first-lieutenant in the regular army. Clean-up man in the pit was my first job, which I held until I passed to third-helper on the o...

Excerpt from Modern Technology and Civilization: An Introduction to Human Problems in the Machine AgeIntroduction Bibliography. 1. On Evaluating Technology In History (charles Singer) 2. Historical Origins of the Machine Age i. What Is a Machine: Tools, Machines and Utilities Defined (lewis Mumford) II. Ideological Preparation: The Wish before the Fact (lewis Mumford)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

Excerpt from Modern Technology and Civilization: An Introduction to Human Problems in the Machine AgeIntroduction Bibliography. 1. On Evaluating Technology In History (charles Singer) 2. Historical Origins of the Machine Age i. What Is a Machine: Tools, Machines and Utilities Defined (lewis Mumford) II. Ideological Preparation: The Wish before the Fact (lewis Mumford)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

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In the spring of 1934, a small group of militant union organizers led Minneapolis truckers on a series of strikes that sought to break the city's antiunion grip. The striking truckers, in protest of scab workers, took to the streets of the city's warehouse district where they faced violent opposition from the police and members of the Citizen's Alliance, a group representing Minneapolis's business community. The conflict exploded when police f...

Excerpt from Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker In the summer of 1919, a few weeks before the Great Steel Strike, I bought some second-hand clothes and went to work on an open-hearth furnace near Pittsburgh to learn the steel business. I was a graduate of Yale, and a few weeks before had resigned a commission as first-lieutenant in the regular army. Clean-up man in the pit was my first job, which I held until I passed to third-helper on the...