A Country Without Strikes

by Lloyd, Henry Demarest; Reeves, William Pember

• ISBN13: 9781108039475
• ISBN10: 1108039472
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1928), writer and social reformer, rose to prominence as one of America's first muckraker journalists. Born in New York City, Lloyd started his journalism career at the Chicago Tribune and went on to expose the abuse of power in American oil companies. He also pursued a career in politics. In 1899 he travelled to New Zealand and Australia, the 'political laboratories' of Great Britain, to investigate how they resolved the conflict between organised capital and organised labour, and how they promoted social welfare. This book, published in 1900, praises New Zealand's system of compulsory arbitration and describes many instances of successful dispute resolution, from clothing manufacture to newspaper typesetting. The book includes an introduction by William Pember Reeves (1857-1932), liberal newspaper editor and writer, who as New Zealand's minister of labour had brought in the Arbitration Act of 1894 and other important labour legislation.

Table of Contents

Something new in strikes and lockouts

The shoemaker sticks to the last

Better committees than mobs

A new song of the shirt

This law of Parliament becomes a law of trade

What it cost and what it pays

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