Book Reviews : Human Resources for Egyptian Enterprise. By FREDERICK HARBISON and IBRAHIM ABDELKADER IBRAHIM. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958. Pp. x, 230. $5.95.)

• Published date: 01 December 1964
• Date: 01 December 1964
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296401700437
• Subject Matter: Articles

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identifications are mostly lacking. Little insight, if any, is conveyed to the freshman
or sophomore by the statement that at the time of the Crimean War &dquo;Russia bitterly
resented the neutrality of the [Austrian] monarch who had been the Tsar’s prot6g6
and whom Nicholas had rescued in 1849.&dquo; I, for one, am not so optimistic as to
assume that such a sentence will bring to the student’s mind the fact that Nicholas
rescued the Austrian monarch by intervening at his request in Hungary to suppress
the revolution against Austrian rule.
GEORGE V. WOLFE
The College of Idaho
Human Resources for Egyptian Enterprise. By FREDERICK HARBISON and IBRAHIM
ABDELKADER IBRAHIM. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958.
Pp. x, 230. $5.95.)
The authors have produced a first-rate study of managerial and labor resources,
standards, potentials, and problems in terms of human values within a framework of
Egyptian political and economic development. The emphasis is upon industry and
industrialization. Part of a comparative analysis of human problems in industrializa-
tion being made by the Inter-University Study of Labor Problems in Economic
Development, the work is designed to be comparable to analyses of other countries
such as India, Chile, Iraq, and Indonesia. With a background of wide experience in
the labor and management fields, the authors relied heavily on information secured
through interviews and personal associations with individuals in Egyptian govern-
ment, industry, unions, and educational institutions. The result is what they have
called an &dquo;impressionistic analysis,&dquo; but which is, in reality, an impressive, thorough,
and accurate evaluation in depth, not at all possible with general reliance upon exist-
ing written material or incomplete and inaccurate statistical data.
The subject matter is organized along three lines: setting, development of man-
power resources, and the management of labor protests. The background setting
considers political,...