+ Boston Transcript p7 O 9 ’20 280w
“Combining the lucidity of the trained writer, the quick eye of the reporter and the orderly reflectiveness of the born philosopher, Mr Baker’s birdseye view of what is wrong with American industry is the best book of its kind which has yet appeared.”
+ Ind 103:319 S 11 ’20 200w
“There is nothing the matter with Mr Baker’s observation, as far as it penetrates, but it does not penetrate to the causes which maintain the struggle in spite of anyone’s reasonableness or good intentions.” G: Soule
+ − Nation 111:534 N 10 ’20 190w
“He is always the reporter standing outside, trying to understand a technical problem and to help his audience to understand.” Ordway Tead
+ − New Repub 25:208 Ja 12 ’21 410w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
Review 3:504 N 24 ’20 350w R of Rs 62:110 Jl ’20 30w
“An outlook free from confusing prejudices and a well disciplined ability to obtain facts were carried to the inquiry. Mr Baker’s principal prepossession seems to have been a desire to learn those things which are favorable to the public well being. That, I take it, is not an insuperable handicap. On the whole there is perhaps no other single book which tells so well and so truthfully the story of a large and important part of ‘the new industrial unrest.’”