“... there has not appeared in recent years so calm and determined an attack upon judicial legislation.”—La Follette’s Magazine.
“A very stimulating study.”—Review of Reviews.
Labor and Administration
By JOHN R. COMMONS
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Cloth, 12mo, $1.60 net
The history of labor laws and strikes has this in common to both—laws become dead letters; the victories of strikes are nibbled away. Some philosophers fall back on the individual’s moral character. Little, they think, can be done by law or unions. There are others who inquire how to draft and enforce the laws, how to keep the winnings of strikes—in short, how to connect ideals with efficiency.
These are the awakening questions of the past decade, and the subject of this book. Here is a field for the student and economist—not the “friend of labor” who paints an abstract working-man, but the utilitarian idealist, who sees them all as they are; not the curious collector of facts and statistics but the one who measures the facts and builds them into a foundation and structure. His constructive problem is not so much the law and its abstract rights, as administration and its concrete results.
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