Excerpt from The Relation of Labor to the Law of Today
The fact that we must go to Germany for the best account of English trades unions, which is contained in Dr. Brentano's "Labor Guilds of the Present," of which this work, as to quantity of matter, is an abridgment, as to extent of ground covered, an enlargement, may at first thought cause surprise.
This fact is not owing wholly or mainly to the German habit of research. It has a deeper cause. The classical political economy of England, prevalent also in this country, has been built up almost exclusively on the side of capital and the capitalist, and is full of theories and assumptions. Writers who have worked upon the structure have been mainly bankers, capitalists, or doctrinaire professors. This accounts for its capitalistic and theoretical character. In this country we have produced as yet few or no original investigators in the economic field. "With few exceptions the works produced in the United States have been prepared as text-books by authors engaged in college instruction, and therefore chiefly interested in bringing principles previously worked out by English authors within the easy comprehension of undergraduate students."
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