| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 654. Ap. ‘05. 760w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Adams, Thomas Sewall, and Sumner, Helen L. Labor problems: a text book; ed. by Prof. R. T. Ely. [*]$1.60. Macmillan.
The following extract from the preface of this work shows the author’s purpose: “The principal aim of this book is to furnish a convenient collection of facts that will facilitate the study and the teaching of the American labor problem.... Where it was necessary we have sacrificed both interest and general social philosophy in order to present concrete facts. We believe that the gravest differences of opinion about the labor problem and the most dangerous misapprehensions are caused by the failure to view the problem broadly, to consider its many phases and ramifications. The labor problem is greater than the problem of industrial peace. Impelled by this conviction, we have preferred to cover a broad field imperfectly rather than a narrow field in detail.”
“It is written in a broad and sympathetic way, with every effort to state the facts fairly and clearly.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 586. My. ‘05. 190w. |
“It is professionally designed for undergraduates and teachers, but the general public may find in it also a range of subject-matter and a felicity of treatment which should make it popular.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 811. O. 5, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] “Is comprehensive in scope and thoro in treatment, and will be found indispensable to all students of industrial questions.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 63. Ja. 28, ‘05. 220w. (Statement of aim and scope.) |
“This last chapter ... is probably the one which is most open to the charge of providing students with ready-made opinions, though a similar charge may also be made in connection with Dr. Adams’s treatment of trade-unionism. It is, however, impossible to expect a treatise like this to be exhaustive, and nothing but praise can be given for the painstaking accuracy and wide research of the authors.”