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1. "Hoovering" in the Twenties: Efficiency, Wages, and Growth in the "New Economic System"
Postwar Labor Unrest and the Arrival of Herbert Hoover
Confronting and Defining the Waste in Industry
A Public Concern: The Workday in the Steel Industry
Wages, Hours, and "a Feeling of Partnership"
"This Almost Insatiable Appetite for Goods and Services": The NBER Celebrates the Worker-Consumer
2. Wages and the Public Interest: Economists and the Wage Question in the New Era
Mistakes and Makeovers: Wage and Price Statistics, 1914-1925
Measuring Wages in the Postwar Era
Wages as a Public Concern
Prosperity and Wages in the Postwar Era
Wages as a Public Concern
Prosperity and Wage Justice: The Post-1922 Real Wage Increase
3. Enlightened Labor? Labor's Share and Economic Stability
The AFL's Search for a New Mission
The Rise of the Labor Research Bureau
More than Just More: A New Wage Policy for Organized Labor
Labor's New Friends
The AFL as a Watchdog for Economic Stability
Open the Books: The LBI's Examination of Profits
"Assuming Responsibility for Service:" The B & O Experiment
4. A New Capitalism?: Interrogating Employers' Efforts to Cultivate a "Feeling of Partnership" in Industry
Interrogating New Capitalism: The RSF Studies
The Filene Department Store and Dutchess Bleachery Investigations
The Rockefeller Plan in the Coal and Steel Industry
Conclusion: A New Capitalism?
5. Gender Research as Labor Activism: The Women's Bureau in the New Era
Empowering Expertise: The Creation of the Women's Bureau
Redefining Women Workers as Breadwinners
Labor Inquiry as Activism through Gendered and Race Knowledge
Advocating Labor Standards Before and After Adkins
6. The New "Negro Problem"
An Intractable Condition
Celebration and Concern: First Steps at Making Sense of the Migration
The Rise and Fall of the Division of Negro Economics
The Red Summer and the Emergence of Charles S. Johnson
7. Promising Problems: Working towards a Reconstructed Understanding of the African American and Mexican Worker
Framing the Postwar Immigration Debate
Reconstructing the Public Perception of the Negro Problem
Considering the RElative Position of the Negro and Mexican Worker
Remaking the Public Image of the Mexican Problem.
Postwar Labor Unrest and the Arrival of Herbert Hoover
Confronting and Defining the Waste in Industry
A Public Concern: The Workday in the Steel Industry
Wages, Hours, and "a Feeling of Partnership"
"This Almost Insatiable Appetite for Goods and Services": The NBER Celebrates the Worker-Consumer
2. Wages and the Public Interest: Economists and the Wage Question in the New Era
Mistakes and Makeovers: Wage and Price Statistics, 1914-1925
Measuring Wages in the Postwar Era
Wages as a Public Concern
Prosperity and Wages in the Postwar Era
Wages as a Public Concern
Prosperity and Wage Justice: The Post-1922 Real Wage Increase
3. Enlightened Labor? Labor's Share and Economic Stability
The AFL's Search for a New Mission
The Rise of the Labor Research Bureau
More than Just More: A New Wage Policy for Organized Labor
Labor's New Friends
The AFL as a Watchdog for Economic Stability
Open the Books: The LBI's Examination of Profits
"Assuming Responsibility for Service:" The B & O Experiment
4. A New Capitalism?: Interrogating Employers' Efforts to Cultivate a "Feeling of Partnership" in Industry
Interrogating New Capitalism: The RSF Studies
The Filene Department Store and Dutchess Bleachery Investigations
The Rockefeller Plan in the Coal and Steel Industry
Conclusion: A New Capitalism?
5. Gender Research as Labor Activism: The Women's Bureau in the New Era
Empowering Expertise: The Creation of the Women's Bureau
Redefining Women Workers as Breadwinners
Labor Inquiry as Activism through Gendered and Race Knowledge
Advocating Labor Standards Before and After Adkins
6. The New "Negro Problem"
An Intractable Condition
Celebration and Concern: First Steps at Making Sense of the Migration
The Rise and Fall of the Division of Negro Economics
The Red Summer and the Emergence of Charles S. Johnson
7. Promising Problems: Working towards a Reconstructed Understanding of the African American and Mexican Worker
Framing the Postwar Immigration Debate
Reconstructing the Public Perception of the Negro Problem
Considering the RElative Position of the Negro and Mexican Worker
Remaking the Public Image of the Mexican Problem.