Bailey (David) The Truck System: a book for masters and workmen, first edition, presentation copy from the author, occasional spotting, lightly browned, loose in original printed wrappers, little spotting, soiled, [Bath] & London, [Isaac Pitman &] Fred Pitman, 1859 § [Rewcastle (James)] Speech delivered at The Polemic Society, on the subject of happiness, one of 20 copies, this is a presentation copy, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, modern buckram-backed marbled boards, [Not in Martin Privately Printed Books, or Dobell], [Newcastle], [Fordyce], 1826; and 3 others, 19th century, v.s. (5)
⁂ The contentious 'truck system' was an arrangement whereby wages were paid partly
or wholly in credit with specified retailers. The system was prone to being used to defraud or exploit workers by limiting their
choices of places to spend their earnings and by charging artificially high prices for goods at those places.
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