GUNTON, George.

Wealth and Progress. A critical examination of the wages question and its economic relation to social reform.

London, Macmillan, 1888. 8vo, pp. [2], xxiii, [1] blank, 382, [2] publisher’s advertisements; a fewlight spots to the first few leaves, else a nice clean copy in the original publisher’s cloth, spine lettered gilt, a little skewed, slight cockling to the upper board. First British edition. Born in Cambridgeshire, the son of an agricultural labourer, George Gunton (1845–1919) emigrated to America in 1874, where he worked as a weaver, but was blacklisted the following year after leading an unsuccessful strike. He did, however, secure some other manual work, at the same time writing articles for the Labor Standard. In 1878, when the paper merged with the Labor Journal, Gunton was appointed manager, a post he held for four years. ‘In 1883 a labor group persuaded Gunton to edit manuscript material left by [Ira] Steward. These notes, however, proved to be too fragmentary for editing, but the project gave birth to Gunton’s own volume, Wealth and Progress, which appeared [in New York] in 1887 and passed through several editions’ (DAB). His other works include Principles of Social Economics (1891) and, with Hayes Robbins, Outlines of Social Economics (1900).Cossa, p. 236; not in Einaudi or Menger.

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