Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era

by Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr.

This is an historical examination of the debate in the USA over labour relations and the resulting expansion of the government agencies that provided the basis for the system. In the final months of the US Commission on Industrial Relations in 1915, economist John R. Commons sent a memorandum recommending the creation of a permanent council for administering labour relations. Commons felt that, after years of labour unrest, the USA teetered on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231076983
• ISBN13: 9780231076982
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher