“It is not surprising that Horace Howard Furness, jr., the son and literary successor of his noted father, should cast in dramatic form one of the most intimate and pleasing interpretations of a living Shakespeare. The interweaving of Elizabethan diction and contemporary thought is never strained.”
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FURNISS, EDGAR STEVENSON. Position of the laborer in a system of nationalism. *$2 Houghton 331
20–18599
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics and is a study of the labor theories of the later English mercantilists, 1660–1775. The author holds that the dominant nationalism existing in England between the years 1660–1775 bears a fundamental likeness to the revival of nationalism caused by the war. The former period, known by the term “mercantilism,” has come to stand for a relationship of economic rivalry between nations and the theories and policies that governed it. The reverse side of this mercantilism is the domestic economy of the nation and it is with this side, illustrating the reaction of nationalism upon the life conditions of the people and upon labor, that the book deals. Contents: The doctrine of the national importance of the laborer; The doctrine of employment; The doctrine of the right to employment and the duty to labor; The enforcement of the duty to labor; The doctrine of the utility of poverty; Theories of wages; Conclusions. The appendix contains chapters on the economic, social and moral life conditions of the English laborer, 1660–1775, and the book has a bibliography, a subject index and an index to authors.
“Like others in this series, a scholarly piece of work.”
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“Scholarly study.” G: Soule
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