000 01980nam a2200181Ia 4500
999 _c6476
_d6476
005 20220509162956.0
008 200202s9999 xx 000 0 und d
082 _a331.880973 Bok
100 _aBok, Derek C.
245 0 _aLabour and the American community/by Derek C. Bok and
260 _aNew Delhi
260 _bAffiliated East - West Press
260 _c1974
300 _a542 p.
520 _aIN EARLY 1966, under the auspices of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, we agreed to undertake this study of labor and the American community. It would have been more consonant with the traditions of the Special Studies Project to have worked toward a report to be signed by a distinguished panel of labor, management, and public representatives. After con sultation with interested parties, however, we strongly recom mended against such a procedure because the divergent views of so many participants and observers in the labor field would have made it difficult to reach agreement on any but the most general propositions. Therefore, the following book is entirely our own. In writing it, however, we have benefited, particularly in the forma tive period of our ideas, from the advice of a small advisory com mittee headed by David Rockefeller, under whose initiative the project was started. For several years, Mr. Rockefeller had been disturbed by what he saw on the labor-management scene, and it was his thought that an analysis of the internal, community, and employer relationships of the labor movement would be a valu able and timely contribution to the general understanding of the field. Other members of the advisory committee were Victor Borella, Arthur F. Burns, William F. Butler, Louis W. Cabot, Dana S. Creel, Nancy Hanks, David A. Morse, A. H. Raskin, Don ald B. Straus, David Sullivan, and Frazar B. Wilde. We are deeply grateful for their interest, suggestions, and critical comments.
650 _aEconomics
942 _cB
_2ddc