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Social Aims in a Changing World
$15.25
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This book is a carefully considered attempt to picture the changing social life and to reveal and to emphasize the basic purposes or aims which should guide community and social action. The author holds that the recreation of oneness of community life in spirit and in essence involves a change of emphasis from individual privilege to personal obligation -- that the issue is ultimately moral. It is in part the nature of this obligation that he seeks here to establish.
Professor Beach has given us an indictment of the machine age as it has thus far developed, and of the so-called "triumph of the individual." No critic of the machine per se, he flays the purely selfish ends to which our machine-released energies have been directed. No idol smashing destructionist, he makes cogent suggestions for the building of a modern social order, based on mutual understanding and helpfulness, and making use of our present superlative existing and potential resources of knowledge. According to Beach, today's world has lost the excuse of ignorance with respect to such problems as sickness, immigrant maladjustment, child labor, and war. The tools are at hand with which to eliminate almost every social ill to which the world is heir. The ends of living, both individual and community, must be made to conform to a larger and more intelligently pattern ideal.
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Title Beach
Author Social Aims in a Changing World
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804701512, 9780804701518
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Recent Occupational Trends in American Labor
$14.23
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Designed as a supplement to bring up to date their much-consulted work Occupational Trends in the United States, the present small volume by the same two authors is a fact paced and significant study. It explores employment trends of the years 1930 through 1944 as revealed by the 1940 census and other statistical sources.
Presenting first and overall characterization of the labor force of 1940 and a contrast with the 1930 employment scene, the authors succinctly summarize the effect of a major depression on more than 200 occupational groups. They also undertake a valuable consideration of employment during the early war years.
The future prospects for workers and the possibilities of full employment are weighed and postwar occupational movements are predicted in one timely chapter.
Competent and compact, Anderson and Davidson's new work is not only a necessary handbook to tie in closely with their earlier publication, but a much-needed, practical reference study of employment during the nation's dramatic years of depression and war.
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Recent occupational trends in American labor: a supplement...
Hobson Dewey Anderson, Percy Erwin Davidson
Stanford University Press, 1945
133 pages
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