72 REPORTS OF I NVE;STI CATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Division 8. — Labor Movement. 



This division is under the charge of the Director of the Department of 

 Economics and Sociology. 



Two volumes of " Labor history in the United States " have been com- 

 pleted and will be published by the Macmillan Company. This 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. John R. Commons. During the coming academic year two addi- 

 tional volumes will be completed. The volumes now in the hands of the 

 Macmillan Company cover labor conspiracy cases, 1806 to 1842, and docu- 

 ments relating to plantation and frontier conditions. Of the volumes to be 

 completed the present year one covers labor conditions, 1820 to 1840, and one 

 covers the period i860 to 1880; the fifth volume will cover the period 1840 

 to i860. 



Miss Edith Abbott has published three papers, the titles of which are given 

 in the bibliography in this volume (p. 46). She has also completed studies 

 of women's work in the cotton mills, woolen mills, and the "boots and shoes" 

 industry, and a statistical study of women's wages, all of which it is hoped 

 will be published in a collected volume with the other studies already pub- 

 lished. She has also completed a study of "The origin and early history 

 of child labor in America," and contemplates using that with some other 

 papers in the Journal of Sociology. She has also done a great amount of 

 work on the " Hours of labor, women's wages, etc.," that is not ready to 

 publish. 



Dr. Hollander has published a new edition of the bibliography of American 

 trade-union publications. 



With the material already collected in this division, I see no reason why 

 the final volumes can not be prepared early the coming year. 



Division 9. — Industrial Organization. 



Prof. J. W. Jenks, Cornell University, has a number of very able assistants 

 working industriously to comiplete the various parts of his work, but he has 

 not yet been able to publish any monographs or chapters. His absence from 

 the country on work connected with the United States Government prevented 

 him from beginning his work as early as some of the other collaborators, but 

 he is making excellent progress at the present time. 



Division 10. — Social Legislation. 



Prof. Henry W. Farnam, Yale University, reported in January that the 

 monograph of Dr. J. L. Barnard on "Factory legislation in Pennsylvania" 

 had been published as volume 19 of the publications of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. Professor Farnam is now in Europe on leave of absence 



