Labor and Administration

New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Bookseller, 1964. Reprint. Octavo with tan boards and blue/gilt spine title; 431p; index; 21cm Very good (+); boards are a tad rubbed at edges; small smudge on rear board; pages clean and binding solid. Hardcover.

From a Reprints of Economic Classics series. "The history of labor laws and strikes has this in common to both -- laws become dead letters; the victories of strikes are nibbled away. Too much was expected even of those preparatory labor laws, universal suffrage and universal education. Amateur faith in laws and strikes weaken with experience. A law creates an abstract right--an empty ideal. [...] These are the awakening questions of the past decade, and the subject of this book. Attention is shifting from laws to the means of enforcing them -- from strikes to the unions that safeguard the gains -- from the rights of labor to the protection of its rights." --Introduction to the 1913 edition