Chapter 12, Entitled "an Economic Interpretation," Follows the Line of

analysis laid down by Professor Commons in his study of the American shoemakers, 1648-1895.

The author wishes to express his strong gratitude to Professors Richard T. Ely and John R. Commons for their kind aid at every stage of this work. He also wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. Edwin E. Witte, Director of the Wisconsin State Legislative Reference Library, upon whose extensive and still unpublished researches he based his summary of the history of the injunction; and to Professor Frederick L. Paxson, who subjected the manuscript to criticism from the point of view of General American History.

S.P.

FOOTNOTE:

See his Labor and Administration, Chapter XIV (Macmillan, 1913).

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