74 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



completion within no long period. The greatest difficulty is in securing un- 

 interrupted leisure in order to mass the material which has thus far been 

 accumulated. I feel more confident in regard to finishing the work in a satis- 

 factory form than ever before. 



Division VIIL— LABOR MOVEMENT. 



Professor Commons has completed the publication of his "Documentary 

 history of American industrial society," in eleven volumes, which contains a 

 vast amount of material collected by him with the financial assistance of the 

 Bureau of Industrial Research and of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton. He has been lecturing on labor history during the past two years, and 

 expects to continue the course during the coming year, though he has re- 

 signed his professorship in the University of Wisconsin in order to take up 

 the work of the recently created Wisconsin Industrial Commission. He is 

 employing, as his assistant, Mr. Selig Perlman, and is having monographs 

 on a number of subjects prepared, as indicated in the following list: 



Socialism and anarchism. By Selig Perlman. 



Trade unionism from 1825-1837. By Helen L. Sumner. 



Trade unionism from 1847-1863. By H. E. Hoagland. 



Labor movement and land reform from 1835-1854. By John R. Commons. 



The American Federation of Labor. By E. E. Witte. 



The Knights of Labor. By David J. Saposs. 



Hours of labor. By Lorian P. Jefferson. 



The labor movement in California. By Ira B. Cross. 



Division IX.— INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION. 



In accordance with the policy explained in previous reports, Prof. J. W. 

 Jenks, in order not to duplicate material, is awaiting the completion of the 

 work of some of the other divisions before resuming work on his own. 



Division X.— SOCIAL LEGISLATION. 



Since the last annual report the following monograph has been handed in : 

 The land legislation of Texas. By Reuben McKitrick. 



The following studies are still unfinished : 



Anti-trust legislation of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. By C. L. 



Waldron. 

 The labor legislation of Maryland. By H. Wirt Steele. 

 The labor and rural credit policy of the Southern States. By D. L. Peacock. 



The writer has been engaged during the past year in work on the material 

 already gathered by him, filling in numerous gaps by individual study, and 

 with the aid of an assistant paid by himself. He has utilized part of the 

 material in lectures delivered in the Graduate School of Yale University, 

 and expects to further elaborate and, if possible, complete his study during 

 the coming winter. 



