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Abstract/Sommario: Some pertinent aspects of the present industrial situaztion - The principles of wages - Wages and price movements - The standard wage - The living wage - The regulation of wage levels - A concept of industrial peace.

Abstract/Sommario: Nature and significance of the labor movement - Origin of american trade unions - The century old tactics of labor - Labor's first political experiments - Return to direct industrial action - Industrial panic, political action and utpias - Trade unionism and the civil war - A decade of panics, politics and labor chaos - Rise of the american federation of labor - The american federation of labor and politics - Revolutionary philosophies and tactics - Labor and the world war.

Abstract/Sommario: On the nature and uses of sabotage - The industrial system and the captains of industry - The captains of finance and the engineers - On the danger of a revolutionary overturn - On the circumstances which make for a change - A memorandum on a practicable soviet of technicians.

Abstract/Sommario: The problem and the suggested solution - The dominant ideas - Methods - The effect on wages - The effect on the birth-rate - Influence on the family.

Abstract/Sommario: The optimum firm - The optimum managerial unit - The optimum financial unit - The optimum marketing unit - The influence of risks and fluctuations - The reconciliation of differing optima -The problem of growth - The optimum industry - The location of production (national) - The location of production (international) - Razionalization.

Abstract/Sommario: The ascending phase, resulting from errors of defect - Difficulty of estimating costs - Crisis point and recession of prices - Influence of the monetary and credit element on the development of an industrial fluctuation - Conclusion drawn from the theory - Some recent explanations of the crisis - Practical conclusion.

Abstract/Sommario: Large-scale industry - Some developments of large-scale industry - The organization of marketing - The capitalization of industry - Finance and industry - A survey of capitalism - Industry and the consumer - Collectivism and communism - Workers' control - Joint control.

Abstract/Sommario: Building the boss class machine - Attacks on the unions - Bread and circus.

Abstract/Sommario: Agricultural production and marketing - The building industry . Inland carriage by road and rail - The coal industry - The oil industry - The chemical industry - Steel - The building materials industry - The machine tool industry.