American Syndicalism/Advertisements
THE following pages contain advertisements of books by the same author or on kindred subjects.
Studies in Labor and Social Movements Cloth, 12mo, 394 pages, $1.50 net
"Mr. Brooks has given the name of 'Social Unrest' to his profound study, primarily of American conditions, but incidentally of conditions in all the civilized countries. The book is not easy reading, but it would be difficult to find a volume which would better repay thorough digestion than this. It expresses with absolute justice, I think, the conflicting interests. It shows the fallacies of many socialistic ideals. It admits the errors of the unions. It understands the prejudices of the rich and the nature of their fear when present arrangements are threatened. And the sole purpose of the author is to state the truth, without preference, without passion, as it appears to one who has seen much and who cares how his fellowman enjoys and suffers.
"Mr. Brooks does not guess. He has been in the mines, in the factories, knowing the laborers, knowing the employers, through twenty years of investigation."—Collier's Weekly.
"The author, Mr. John Graham Brooks, takes up and discusses through nearly four hundred pages the economic significance of the social questions of the hour, the master passions at work among us, men versus machinery, and the solution of our present ills in a better concurrence than at present exists—an organization whereby every advantage of cheaper service and cheaper product shall go direct to the whole body of the people.... Nothing upon his subject so comprehensive and at the same time popular in treatment as this book has been issued in our country. It is a volume with live knowledge—not only for workman but for capitalist, and the student of the body politic—for every one who lives—and who does not?—upon the product of labor."—The Outlook.
Mr. Bliss Perry, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, says of it: "A fascinating book—to me the clearest, sanest, most helpful discussion of economic and human problems I have read for years."
Mr. Edward Cary, in The New York Times' Saturday Review, writes: "Hardly a page but bears evidence of his patience, industry, acuteness, and fair-mindedness.... We wish it were possible that his book could be very generally read on both sides. Its manifest fairness and sympathy as regards the workingmen will tend to the accomplishment of this result; its equal candor and intelligence with regard to the employers should have a like effect with them."
"Perhaps the most valuable portion of it is that which treats of French and German Socialism, in the knowledge of which the author probably has few superiors in this country."—Literary Digest.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Cloth, illustrated, 8vo, $1.75 net; postpaid, $1.89
A FEW OF THE PRESS COMMENTS
"Admirably just and true—the book is one of the most entertaining and illuminating that we have ever come across; it is, from beginning to end, a happy proof of the good understanding that is growing more and more complete between the two countries."—The Spectator, London.
"A most human and humorous essay; a most admirable guide book on international manners. To anyone visiting a foreign country I would give 'As Others See Us' with this injunction: Read this and you will know how to behave. I have rarely got more pleasure from any book."—Sidney Brooks, London Correspondent for Harper's Weekly.
"Mr. Brooks is so frankly an optimist, so skilful in confronting the hostile or doubting critic with facts that have been overlooked, and withal possesses so wide a range of social observation that one rises from a perusal of this volume with a heightened sense of our national soundness and a more cheerful confidence in our national future. The volume is one that should be widely read if for no other reason than that it is delightful reading."—The Nation, New York.
"Like all Mr. Brooks' work this is well written, informing, cool and sane in judgment, and always interesting."—Congregationalist, Boston.
"A stimulating and delightful volume."—Professor Bliss Perry.
"A very clever and delightful book."—D. Maurice F. Egan, Minister to Denmark.
"Every American ought to read John Graham Brooks' 'As Others See Us.'"—Chicago Record-Herald.
"A valuable and vastly interesting book."—Indianapolis News.
"This volume will be read with interest by many thousands."—Arthur Brisbane in New York Journal.
"A delightful book."—Argonaut, San Francisco.
"Not a dull or uninteresting page in it from first to last."—Christian Register, Boston.
"Not only very readable with its variety of pertinent comment but also informing."—Edward Cary in New York Times.
"It is a most clever and interesting book."—Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor Review of Reviews.
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The Law of the Employment of Labor
By L. D. CLARK
Cloth, 12mo, $1.60 net
In all the realm of economics it is strange that heretofore no book has been published dealing specifically and authoritatively with the legal aspects of labor. Mr. Clark has realized this, and his book covers the whole field of law as it affects the employment of labor in the United States. By the citation of an adequate number of representative cases and statutes, the principles of common law in their most important phases as well as the nature and trend of legislation are discussed and illustrated in so far as these are applicable to workmen and their employers.
By SCOTT NEARING, Ph.D., of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Cloth, 377 pages, $1.50 net
"It is a good book, and will help anyone interested in the study of present social problems."—Christian Standard.
"A clear, sane gathering together of the sociological dicta of to-day. Its range is wide—education, wages, distribution and housing of population, conditions of women, home decadence, tenure of working life and causes of distress, child labor, unemployment, and remedial methods. A capital reading book for the million, a text-book for church and school, and a companion for the economist of the study desk."—Book News Monthly.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net
This work represents an examination of statistics offered by various states and industries in an effort to determine the average wage in the United States. As a scholarly and yet simple statement it is a valuable contribution to the study of one side of our social organization.
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By ANNIE MARION MacLEAN,
Professor of Sociology in Adelphi College
Cloth, leather back, 12mo, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
"This book needed to be written. Society has to be reminded that the prime function of women must ever be the perpetuation of the race. It can be so reminded only by a startling presentation of the woman who is 'speeded up' on a machine, the woman who breaks records in packing prunes or picking hops, the woman who outdoes all others in vamping shoes or spooling cotton.... The chapters give glimpses of women wage-earners as they toil in different parts of the country. The author visited the shoe shops, and the paper, cotton, and woolen mills of New England, the department stores of Chicago, the garment-makers' homes in New York, the silk mills and potteries of New Jersey, the fruit farms of California, the coal fields of Pennsylvania, and the hop industries of Oregon. The author calls for legislation regardless of constitutional quibble, for a shorter work-day, a higher wage, the establishment of residential clubs, the closer coöperation between existing organizations for industrial betterment."—Boston Advertiser.
The Income and Outlay of New York Working Girls
By SUE AINSLIE CLARK and EDITH WYATT
Illustrated, cloth, 12mo, 270 pages, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.60
The girl who, without friends or home, is obliged to earn her living in a big city, faces a very real problem. Various phases of this problem have been dealt with by philanthropic, social and religious workers and writers; but the solution is seemingly as far away as ever. Though there are many homes and organizations of a semi-charitable nature in all our large cities, these really can care for and watch over but a small per cent of the working girl population. Those who for one reason or another do not come within the radius of these institutions must shift entirely for themselves. These are the subjects of Mrs. Clark and Miss Wyatt's book.
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A SURVEY OF THE WORLD WIDE
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
Cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; postpaid, $2.12
Psofessor John Graham Brooks:
"I have seen this movement at pretty close hand for so many years that I can judge fairly well, I think, of your analysis and characterization. It is a strong and faithful bit of work. I have rarely enjoyed a book so much with which I so widely differ in its main inferences."
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science:
"An excellent analysis of Sociallst tactics, in fact the best that has ever been published."—Review by Professor Ira B. Cross.
The American Library Association Booklist:
"A scholarly, detailed study of Socialism as it has been modified by changes in economic conditions since the time of Marx and Engels, based on a twelve years' study in Germany, Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy and Belgium."
The American Economic Review:
"The book reveals an enormous amount of reading and an intimate, inside acquaintance with every phase of the subject.... Mr. Walling points out constantly that extension of state action is not necessarily Socialism.... Certain people are much alarmed at the alleged drift toward Socialism revealed in state reform policies. Others, rightly distressed by the evils of the present industrial order, sympathizing with state action for their alleviation, and misled by certain Socialist writers into believing that such progressive measures are Socialism, align themselves with that party. Both these groups, widely apart as they are, should note the fact clearly brought out by this study, that Socialism is a movement which believes that capitalism, large and small, should be annihilated by a class struggle."—Review by Professor Herbert E. Mills.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in The Forerunner:
"Scholarly and thorough in treatment ... the whole weight of the book is in support of what may be called orthodox Marxism, and will give pleasure to all Socialists of that division, as well as being of general service in its clear definitions and distinctions."
Professor Charles Zueblin:
"I am enjoying and profiting by your book on Socialism, as I find everybody else has who is reading it. Its analysis is admirable, and I think nobody has stated the trend of things as you have."
The New York Sun:
"Mr. Walling has written a thoughtful book. His manner is judicial, though his attitude toward Socialism is sympathetic. He has allowed no rant to enter into his pages."
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A Few Macmillan Books on Socialism
By W. J. GHENT
"The spiciest volume on a serious theme that we have had for many months.... Clear thinking, clever phrasing, and pungent comments on various phases of modern American life combine to make this essay a genuine intellectual treat."—Boston Herald.
Cloth, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
"A study of the ethics of wage-earning producers, of self-employing producers, social servants, traders, capitalists, and retainers, trenchant, vivacious, and of genuine interest."—The Independent.
Cloth, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
Socialism in Theory and Practice
"For the American, Mr. Hillquit's book is the best presentation of the socialist point of view that has yet appeared."—The Economic Review.
"It can be recommended as a full and sensible statement of the case for socialism; ... its comprehension and lucidity give it a claim upon every thinking person whose mind on this subject is not itself comprehending and lucid."—The Evening Post, Chicago.
"It merits the praise of being the best presentation of the socialist position that has been published since it reached a stage that calls for more than academic discussion ... and it has the rare merit of being interesting. It is compact and contains information that if sought elsewhere would compel a hunt through a dozen or more volumes."—The Brooklyn Eagle.
Cloth, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.62
By WILLIAM B. GUTHRIE, Ph.D.
Socialism before the French Revolution
"A really important contribution in a neglected field."—American Historical Review.
Cloth, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.62
"Unquestionably the best study of socialism in the English language ... of the utmost value."—Manchester Guardian.
Cloth, $2.25 net; by mail, $2.38
By ROBERT HUNTER
"It is a vivid, running characterization of the foremost personalities in the socialist movement throughout the world. Such a book does real service in presenting the truly significant facts in the modern spread of socialistic propaganda and in stating in definite terms the principles on which socialists are agreed and the immediate aims of their organizations. The world-sweep of the movement has never before been so clearly brought before the American reading public."—Review of Reviews.
Cloth, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.61
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By JOHN SPARGO
A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles
"Anything of Mr. Spargo's is well worth reading, for it is written with conviction and with a sense of concrete life far removed from mere doctrinairism.... Anybody who wants to know exactly what the American Marxian of the saner sort is aiming at will find it here. In view of the present situation it is a book that every thoughtful person will want to read and read carefully."—World To-day.
Cloth, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.63
By MAX HIRSCH
A Critical Examination of Socialism as a Remedy for Social Injustice and an Exposition of the Single Tax Doctrine
Mr. Hirsch offers the other side to those who would thoroughly investigate the socialist doctrine. He analyzes the teachings of socialism; points out what he conceives to be the errors in their economic and ethical standpoint; exhibits the conflict between their industrial and distributive proposals, and the disasters toward which they tend. In his final section he aims to show that upon the success of certain social reforms depends the realization of the ultimate object of both individualism and socialism—the establishment of social justice.
Cloth, 8vo, $3.25 net; by mail, $3.39
A Handbook for Speakers and Candidates Prepared by the London Municipal Society
Its prefatory letter from Arthur James Balfour says: "The controversy is one vital to the welfare of society; ... no greater service can be rendered to the cause of ordered progress than a statement, at once careful and popular, of the main points in the dispute."
"Every man or woman, rich or poor, at all interested in the social, economic, and moral welfare of the masses should read it ... the very best handbook of its kind that has been issued to the public."—Labor World.
Cloth, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.62
By YVES GUYOT
"It is written in the crisp, clear style that is essentially French—the most logical of languages written by the most logical of thinkers. A great book ... one of those which serve to clarify contemporary thought and to make what the German thinkers describe as an 'erklärung'—a clearing up."—The State.
"An arsenal of facts and figures available for an anti-socialistic campaign."—Ecclesiastical Review.
Cloth, $1.50; by mail, $1.63
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