This article is an outgrowth of an attempt to draft a research plan for a comparative study of the "labor problem" in countries in various stages of industrial development. The authors find that the "standard analytical framework" is unsatisfactory for this purpose, and present here their views...

An important aspect of the reconstruction of Germany has been the rebuilding of the free trade union movement that had been smashed by the Nazi government. In the October 1951 issue of the "Review," William McPherson discussed the political effort of German unions to gain a greater share of...