Carroll Wright and Labor Reform: The Origin of Labor Statistics

by James Leiby

Contemporaries of Carroll D. Wright (1840-1909) lived through the transformation of American society by the industrial revolution. For the most part they thought the transformation represented growth and progress, but many also found occasion for doubt and fear in its consequences. Their anxieties collected around the notions of a "labor problem" and "labor reform." Whether from hope or fear, people felt a need for statistical information. On this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674098005
• ISBN13: 9780674098008
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.0"