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Division 8. The IvAbor Movement. 



This division of the Department of Economics and Sociology is 

 under my own charge. Dr. J. H. Hollander, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, with a corps of graduate students, has been for a long time 

 engaged upon 'the study of all elements or phases of trades unions, 

 including their history, development, constitutions, . methods, mem- 

 bership, etc. He has made fine progress with this work, and all the 

 results of his studies are to be available for the economic history of 

 the Carnegie Institution. 



A topical analysis of all labor laws of the United States and an 

 analysis of the decisions of courts interpreting them are in process 

 of preparation. These analyses will be so arranged that in a very 

 brief and concrete statement one can learn just exactly what prin- 

 ciples of law relative to the relations of employer and employee have 

 been adopted in any State. 



Many of the other features coming under this division require 

 principally classification and arrangement, as the information con- 

 cerning strikes, injunctions, boycotts, employers' liability, the hours 

 of labor, wages, etc., is in existence. The official reports of the 

 Federal and State governments and the investigations of individual 

 students are to be utilized and their results co-ordinated. 



Dr. Richard T. Ely, of the University of Wisconsin, has pro- 

 jected quite an ambitious work on industrial democracy, in the prep- 

 aration of which he will make various original studies. I have ar- 

 ranged with Dr. Ely for an exchange of data in order to avoid the 

 expense attending duplication of research. 



Division 9. Industrial Organization. 

 Dr. J. W. Jenks, of Cornell University, is in charge of this division, 

 but, as already explained, on account of his absence in China for the 

 Federal Government, he has not entered actively upon the discharge 

 of his duties. 



Division 10. Social Legislation, Including Provident Institutions, 



Insurance, Poor Laws, etc 



This division is under the leadership of Prof. Henry W. Far- 

 nam, of the Sheffield School, New Haven. Professor Farnam has 

 made considerable progress in his work, and has had under his 

 employment several assistants, among whom is Mr. F. R. Fairchild, 

 wbo has completed a study of the factory legislation of New York. 

 Mr. George C. Groat, of Columbia University, is at present at work 

 upon that phase of the social legislation of the State of New York 



