The walking delegate

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Hardcover. 372p., original blue cloth with edge wear, minor soiling of the cover, corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name on front blank end paper else good condition, first edition. About workers in the New York construction industry. *Rideout novel. Hanna 3157. "Although overdrawn, the novel is an early example of realism in the labor novel. Union meetings, the life of the walking delegate, struggles to make make unions democratic, and behind-the-scenes strike negotiations are well reported although Scott's style is undistinguished and his plot overcomplicated." *Fay Blake, The strike in the American (truncated) novel p. 230. (Inventory #: 290270)