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THOMAS, EDWARD. Industry, emotion and unrest. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 304
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In dealing with our modern economic life and the factors which make for industrial and social unrest, the author chooses to portray incidents and cases rather than to present economics and sociology as a science. He emphasizes the need of an ethical interest of the worker in his work and a satisfying emotional connection with its product. He sees the solution of our present day troubles in administrative methods rather than in more drastic revolutionary changes; and makes it one of his practical suggestions, at the end of the book, that the middle class youth—as the potential industrial leaders—should learn by practical experience of the strenuous life of workers. Contents: Emotion in industry; Business groups and business ideals; Business methods and business ethics; Decadence of the middle class; Our social group heredity; Ideas, ethics and institutionalism; Education, emotion and idealism; Adventure and ethics; The government, law and unrest; Some gulfs, complexities and loyalties; A summary and some suggestions; Notes and index.
“The form of his book is unusual because, being a lawyer, the author has seen the advantage of presenting his material in the case system. They are in fact actual and not theoretical cases, which will mean much to the interest of readers.”