“Naturally, a large field has been covered in so small a work, but the reader in search of a small volume that will give him the essentials of this history will find this one valuable for the purpose.” James Oneal
+ N Y Call p10 Je 13 ’20 370w + R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 40w
“An excellent summary of American labor history. The book is based on recent more voluminous works, but the clarity of explanation and the skill in selecting the salient facts of somewhat complicated situations and incidents are largely the author’s own.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 My 6 ’20 120w
“In her ‘Short history of the American labor movement’ Mrs Beard performs with interest, competence and wide sympathy a much needed service.”
+ Survey 44:313 My 29 ’20 150w
“It gives a clear impression of the ups and downs of a movement which in one form or another goes back to colonial times. But its value is impaired by the author’s laudable desire for brevity. Her book is so general that it gives no sense of the real life and color of the labor movement and but little understanding of the contending philosophies within it. So important a phase of the modern labor movement as the development of the Amalgamated clothing workers is not even mentioned.” N. T.
+ − World Tomorrow 3:189 Je ’20 180w
“The book preserves an admirably sane and restrained tone to the end.” W: B. Walling
+ Yale R n s 10:214 O ’20 380w