82 re;ports oi^ investigations and projects. 



Completed manuscripts have been received from Hon. Charles F. Pidgin, 

 late chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, on "Average 

 wages previous to i860 and from i860 to 1906, in forty leading occupations." 

 Also from Dr. William H. Tolman, on the "Influence of industrial betterment 

 as an economic factor." 



With the aid of this division there has appeared a Bibliograph)' of Ameri- 

 can trade-union publications. 



Under this division it was reported last year that 2 volumes of "Labor 

 history of the United States" had been completed and would be published. 

 A serious obstacle arose to such publication and it has been deferred. There 

 are now 5 volumes of labor history in the United States completed. The 

 work has been done in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin and the 

 American Bureau of Industrial Research, under the direction of Dr. Richard 

 T. Ely and Prof. J. R. Commons. A condensed work of these 5 volumes is 

 being prepared by Professor Commons for this division. 



There are 7 persons at present aiding the Director in his division. 



Division 9. — Industrial Organization. 



Prof. J. W. Jenks, of Cornell University, in charge, reports that Professors 

 Wilgus and Whittlesey have been employed on special monographic reports, 

 the others gathering material largely from statutes and other sources. 



Prof. Horace L. Wilgus, of Ann Arbor, is writing a history of corporation 

 law in the United States and its influence upon economic development. He 

 has had two graduate law-students assisting him, Mr. Robert N. Denham, Jr., 

 and Mr. Carleton H. Woodward ; also Miss I. S. Fredlund. Professor Jenks 

 has also collected material along the line of Professor Wilgus's investigations 

 through his own studies. 



Mr. Walter L. Whittlesey, of Princeton University, is engaged upon the 

 history of the lighting corporations in New York City, with special reference 

 to noting and explaining the development of the organization of such public- 

 service corporations. He has already covered a good part of the early field 

 and expects to make a complete monograph suitable for publication. He 

 practically devoted his entire time the past summer to the study. 



Mr. Alfred H. Stone, in connection with his study of the negro in the 

 United States, is making a special study of the changes in business organiza- 

 tion brought about by the freeing of the negroes in the South, and also of the 

 varying forms of business organization of the negroes as compared with the 

 whites engaged in similar occupations, especially in agricultural work on the 

 cotton plantations in the South. 



Miss Alice Durand, of New York City, Miss Muriel Fessenden, of Ontario, 

 Mrs. Ida R. Weed, of Washington, District of Columbia, Miss Bertha Griffin, 

 of Philadelphia, and Mr. John Lapp, Cornell University, have been working 

 at different times during the year in gathering material under Professor 



