UNITED STATES BY ROBERT FRANKLIN HOXIE, PH.D. ONE TIME ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, AUTHOR OF "SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND LABOR" WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY E. H. DOWNEY, PH.D. SPECIAL DEPUTY OF THE INSURANCE COMMISSION OF PENNSYLVANIA LATE CHIEF STATISTICIAN OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN The main reason for teaching, to me, is to open the students' minds to the possibility of questioning the fundamentals of current thinking. I want to turn out men who cannot be led naïvely by current judgments but who will subject these judgments to tests based on the validity of their underlying assumptions-in short, socially sophisticated, thinking men. R. F. H. 380519 PREFACE The book here presented is the result of an effort to reproduce as faithfully as possible the notes and lectures on Trade Unionism used by Robert F. Hoxie during his last year of teaching in the University of Chicago, and to combine them with some of his chapters previously published. This material had been prepared by him without thought of publication in this form. Only lack of time prevented the reorganization of it and much rewriting before it was again used in the classroom when in the fall of 1915 he resumed teaching after a year of study and investigation of the relations of labor and scientific management. In view of these facts it was a question whether the notes could be published without injustice to one in whom the love of thoroughness and perfection was a ruling passion. But - doubt on this point was set at rest by those to whom a first copy of the manuscript was submitted, who were unanimously of the opinion that notwithstanding its incompleteness and the fact that its author would have made great changes before embodying any portion of it in the book on Trade Unionism, to which he looked forward as the main work of coming years, there was in the notes value which altogether justified their publication. Largely owing to the method of study and teaching which Mr. Downey, in the Introduction, has described and to the nature of the social laboratory which Trade Unionism offers, it has not been possible to use all the notes, nor to present without gaps the systematic treatment of the subject and its whole foundation of evidence which the class received and which a reader of the completed text would |