Book Reviews : The Quest for Power. By JACK P. GREENE. (Williamsburg: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 528. $8.50.)
| Author | Clark S. Knowlton |
| Date | 01 December 1964 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296401700438 |
| Published date | 01 December 1964 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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are
institutions
and
agencies,
their
methods,
strengths
and
weaknesses
in
manpower
training
at
all
levels.
Part
III
deals
with
relations
between
employers
and
workers,
labor
unions,
and
the
collective
negotiations
between
management,
labor,
and
government.
Manage-
ment-union
relations
are
unfolded
in
four
broad
categories:
paternalistic,
unstable
and
stable
truces,
and
the
permanent
mutual
accommodation.
In
a
triangular
col-
lective-relations
process,
the
government
is
shown
to
hold
a
balance
of
power.
One
of
the
many
interesting
legal
requirements
discussed
is
that
of
non-professional
union
leadership,
the
labor
leaders
being
required
to
maintain
an
employee
status.
Rich
in
thought
and
detail
quite
beyond
capacity
to
convey
fulsomely
in
any
review,
the
reader
will
be
handsomely
rewarded
in
understanding
of
processes,
func-
tions,
problems,
and
possible
solutions
as
they
pertain
to
Egypt
and
other
countries
in
stages
of
early
independence
within
the
contemporary
world.
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College
BROWNLEE
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CORRIN
The
Quest
for
Power.
By
JACK
P.
GREENE.
(Williamsburg:
University
of
North
Carolina
Press,
1963.
Pp. xi, 528.
$8.50.)
In
this
book
the
author
has
made
a
detailed
political
analysis
of
a
little
studied
period
in
American
and
southern
history.
He
has
meticulously
traced
the
constitu-
tional
development
of
the
lower
houses
of
assembly
in
the
southern
Royal
Colonies
of
Virginia,
North
Carolina,
and
Georgia
from
1689
to
the
Revolutionary
War.
During
this
period
the
assemblies
of
the
southern
colonies
passed
through
common
stages
of
development.
They
were
definitely
subordinate
in
their
period
of
formation
to
Crown
officials
during
most
of
the
seventeenth
century.
The
British
Government,
during
this
period,
endeavored
to
form
legislative
assemblies
in
all
the
American
colonies.
As
population
and
wealth
of
the
colonies
began
to
expand
in
the
early
eighteenth
cen-
tury,
a
new
group
of
prosperous
merchants
and
planters
began
to
take
over
assembly
leadership.
This
generation
challenged
the
powers
of
Royal
appointees.
Little
by
little,
through
the
establishment
often
of
prosaic
precedence,
the
assemblies
acquired
control
of
their
local
affairs.
Toward
the
middle
of
this
period,
the
assemblies
en-
trenched
their
position
so
strongly
that
they
were
able
to
do
battle
with
governors
and
even
with
the
authorities
in
London.
Violent
conflicts
often
developed
between
assemblies
and
appointed
Royal
officials.
These
conflicts
were
temporarily
stilled
by
the
Seven
Years’
War.
At
the
end
of
the
war,
the
conflicts
broke
out
more
violently.
The
British
Crown,
aware
of
the
erosion
of
its
authority
and
power
over
the
colonies,
sought
to
bring
them
under
a
tighter
political
control.
Dreaming
of
a
highly
centralized
empire
with
a
clear-cut,
simple
political
system
that
would
bring
the
colonies
under
closer
British
supervision,
the
British
Monarchy
and
its
officials
began
a
determined
movement
to
diminish
assembly
privileges
and
powers.
Eventually
the
assemblies,
to
protect
their
position,
rebelled
and
in
the
end
created
a
new
nation.
The
book
is
a
good
example
of
political
history.
It
is
clear
and
usually
incisive
in
its
tracing
of
political
power
shifts
and
of
conflicts
between
Crown
officials
and
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