• Dr. Arthur Shadwell in The Breakdown of Socialism (Benn,
10s. 6d.) has written a valuable, comprehensive, succinct and extremely readable contribution on the vexed subject of industrial relations. There is no space here to review his masterly summary of the working of Socialism throughout Europe ; we permit ourselves only to quote the author as saying that trade unionists and salaried workers are developing a tendency to combine for the • purchase of shares in the industrial concerns in which they are employed, and that the employers would be well advised to give their men every opportunity to learn the principles of " success- economy." There is a need for employers to take men into their confidence in order to secure their co-operation. " The way to do it is to couple workshop consultation in details with shareholders' responsibility for policy. It is keeping them (the men) at arm's length that fosters antagonism." " What is really happening to-day," concludes Mr. Shadwell, " is the shaping of a new compromise between the individual and the social elements in man, which are equally indestructible and equally powerful." This is a book that everyone should read who wants to get a grasp of the facts of the complicated social adjustments that are even now in progress.
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