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 The Social Unrest

Studies in Labor and Social Movements Cloth, 12mo, 394 pages, $1.50 net

By JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS

"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.

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