“The essay, ‘False and true conceptions of welfare,’ is to our mind the most practical of the entire series.”
+ Cath World 111:392 Je ’20 280w
“They reveal a large acquaintance with economic and industrial problems. It would be beside the point to criticize these papers without remembering that they were written for Catholics. While we agree with many of Dr Ryan’s conclusions, we should find it difficult to subscribe to some of his premises and to submit to the intellectual limitations which follow.” R: Roberts
+ − Nation 110:266 F 28 ’20 280w Springf’d Republican p8 D 13 ’19 90w
RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE. Living wage; with an introd. by R: T. Ely. *$2 Macmillan 331.2
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“A revised and abridged edition of a work that has had much influence in bringing about the enactment of minimum-wage laws and the acceptance of the principle that the laborer has a moral claim to at least a decent living wage. The author is a priest of the Roman Catholic church and a professor in the Catholic university of America.”—R of Rs
“It is agreeable to say that Dr Ryan argues the living wage question better than almost anybody else.”
+ N Y Times 25:267 My 23 ’20 550w R of Rs 61:447 Ap ’20 60w