Labor and steel / by Horace B. Davis.

The first seven chapters of this work were submitted to the Faculty of political science at Columbia university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy. cf. p. 13.

"Reference notes": p. 272-282.

I. The steel workers -- II. Accidents and occupational diseases -- III. Wages and living standards -- IV. Too much work: Long hours and speed-up -- V. Too little work: Unemployment and part-time employment -- VI. The Vanishing job: Technique, markets, and location of the industry -- VII. The feudal domain of steel -- VIII. The steel trust: What it is and how it works -- IX. Profits -- X. History of unionism to 1918 -- XI. The steel strike of 1919 and after

This is one volume in a series of industrial studies being prepared by the Labor Research Association, and organization devoted to the gathering and interpretation of economic material for the labor movement. The aim of this series is to present a picture of the development of the important American industries in relation to the workers employed in them. Other books dealing with American industries have been written from the viewpoint of the employer, the personnel manager, and the technical expert. But they have all been interested in perpetuating the present system of exploitation and in piling up more profits for powerful corporations.