“His initial chapter Mr Crowther entitles The fundamental causes of labor unrest and in it he indicates clearly his own lack of understanding of those causes.”
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CROWTHER, SAMUEL. Why men strike. *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday 331.1
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The author’s contention is that men are now no longer striking for higher wages or shorter hours, as formerly, but are striking against work, i.e. against what they think is an unjust system of society. He has no fault to find with capital, as such, but thinks its present mode of distribution could be improved upon. To that end he advocates a new kind of thrift, that is not based primarily on self-denial but rather on wise spending. By affording opportunities for investment of savings, thus returning them to production, he would give the workers a stake in society, create a nation of capitalists and appease social unrest.
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“It is a genial and smoothly written but ill-informed piece of work.” G: Soule
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“He is involved in assumptions which are hardly tenable, and in conclusions which are of negligible social value.” Ordway Tead