BARTLETT, R. W. The Price of Milk. Pp. 171. Danville: The Interstate Printing Co., 1941. $1.75

• Author: Warren C. Waite
• Published date: 01 May 1942
• Date: 01 May 1942
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/000271624222100157
• Subject Matter: Articles

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is

already

familiar

with

Haitian

history,

the

sections

on

&dquo;The

Formative

Years&dquo;

(pp.

32-87)

constitute

one

of

the

most

illumi-

nating

discussions

of

this

phase

of

Haitian

history

known

to

this

reviewer.

The

pages

dealing

with

land

legislation

are

especially

valuable

now

that

even

the

general

public

realizes

that

we

have

in

this

country

an

agrarian

problem.

Other

parts

of

the

book

reveal

the

author’s

comprehensive

grasp

of

the

literature

and

his

keen

powers

of

ob-

servation

of

Religion,

Sex

Relations

and

Home

Life,

Politics

and

Economics,

and

Modern

Haiti.

The

bibliography

has

some

notable

omissions.

The

Haitian

People

will

make

increas-

ingly

difficult

the

publication

of

books

and

articles

of

the

belittling

type

so

popular

just

a

few

years

ago.

La

leyenda

negra

is

rap-

idly

disappearing

from

American

histori-

ography.

This

book

will

hasten

its

demise.

Professor

Leyburn

richly

deserves

the

Anis-

field

Prize,

which

is

awarded

annually,

for

the

most

notable

literary

contribution

to

race

relations

during

1941.

RAYFORD

W.

LOGAN

Howard

University

DICKINSON,

Z.

CLARK.

Collective

Wage

Determination.

Pp.

xviii,

640.

New

York:

The

Ronald

Press

Co.,

1941.

$5.00.

The

author’s

subtitle

of

this

work

is

&dquo;Problems

and

Principles

in

(Wage)

Bar-

gaining,

Arbitration,

and

Legislation,&dquo;

which

gives

a

clearer

indication

of

its

contents

than

the

shorter

officials

title.

The

book

is

concerned

with

wages,

principally

hourly

rates

of

manual

labor;

but

also,

only

more

incidentally,

with

the

salaries

of

low-paid

routine

workers.

The

study

on

the

one

hand

has

the

viewpoint

of

wages

as

labor

incomes,

and

on

the

other

of

wages

as

costs

of

production.

Still

closer

to

the

point,

the

author

is

mainly

interested

in

collective

bargaining

and

arbitration

which

voluntarily

establish

wage

rates.

Perforce

also

he

must

concern

himself

with

minimum

wages

set

by

legal

processes,

and

their

theoretical

and

practical

consequences.

In

carrying

out

his

purposes

Professor

Dickinson

divides

his

book

into

five

parts,

of

which

the

first

and

shortest

merely

sur-

veys

the

field.

Of

the

others,

Part

2

(in

seven

chapters)

prepares

the

groundwork

factors

usually

invoked

in

collective

wage

adjustments,

while

Part

3

(three

chapters)

surveys

and

evaluates

fluctuations

in

and

between

wages

and

industries.

In

Part

4

(three

chapters)

the

author

delves

into

wage

policies

and

practices

in

the

collective

bargaining

processes.

The

final

section

(five

chapters)

sets

out

the

influences

on

wages

of

public

policy.

In

this

section

the

last

chapter,

a

long

one,

discusses

wage

policies

in

war

and

peace.

The

book,

I

think,

is

unique.

Although

parts

of

it

and

especially

the

points

of

view

were

contained

in

Professor

Dickinson’s

earlier

work,

Compensating

Industrial

Ef-

fort,

this

new

study

is

in

a

class

by

itself.

The

manner

in

which

it

interprets

wage

theory,

both

classical

and

modern,

in

terms

of

everyday

wage

negotiations

between

union

leaders

and

expert

personnel

man-

agers

and

lawyers

is

an

exceptional

con-

tribution

to

economic

literature.

Best

of

all,

the

language

is

simple,

which

is

not

always

the

case

when

economic

theorists

write

for

an

audience

trained

in

theory.

This

book

should

be

invaluable

to

union

negotiators

(or

the

research

departments

behind

them),

as

well

as

to

the

employers’

negotiators

who

sit

across

the

table.

Teach-

ers

of

college

courses

in

labor

problems

and

business

school

courses

in

personnel

man-

agement

could

use

this

book

with

profit

to

themselves

and

their

students.

It

might

even

wake

up

students

taking

courses

in

economic

theory.

MALCOLM

KEIR

Dartmouth

College

BARTLETT,

R.

W.

The

Price

of

Milk.

Pp.

171.

Danville:

The

Interstate

Printing

Co.,

1941.

$1.75.

The

general

thesis

of

the

author

is

that

most

of

the

difhculties

in

our

milk

markets

arise

from

the

high

price

charged

consum-

ers.

This

view

is

supported

with

data

as-

sembled

from

a

number

of

markets

indicat-

ing

an

increased

milk

consumption

following

lowered

prices

that

is

larger

than

expected

by

most

persons.

Wide

spreads

in

distribu-

tion

are

the

major

reason

for

these

high

prices,

although

occasionally

milk

control

boards

have

enhanced

farmer

prices.

In

general,

however,

farmers’

prices

are

some-

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