文档介绍：THE LABOR POLICY
OF
THE FREE SOCIETY
by
SYLVESTER PETRO
PROFESSOR OF LAW
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
THE RONALD PANY • NEW YORK
Copyright, (c), 1957, by
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To
LUDWIG VON MISES
and
WILLIAM WINSLOW CROSSKEY
Since that moment when man first looked upon himself and
saw the image of God, he has struggled against all the powers
of nature and the supernatural, and against all the tyrannies
of his fellow man, to fulfill the promise in that image. He
has lived to the full, in pleasure and pain, the gregarious life
to which half of his instincts and mitted him.
And in response to the other half, he has striven in every
element on earth, in the skies above the earth and in the
waters under the earth, to express himself as an individual.
—Whitney Griswold
PREFACE
I have two objectives in offering this book to the public. I
wish to define the essential features of the free society, and to
advance certain proposals in the field of labor relations. These
two objectives have, as it seems to me, many things mon,
not the least of which is mon relevance to those promi-
nent current problems which set our era apart in history. While
we speak frequently of the free society, there is reason to believe
that its essential nature is not clearly perceived by all its pro-
ponents. Yet we ought to know what it is that we proclaim and
espouse when we munism, fascism, and totalitarian-
ism. I have, therefore, attempted here to restate and to reaffirm
in the modern context the structural elements of the free society.
As it happens, such a restatement also serves well as a standard
with which to measure the labor policy of the United States.
For I assume that ou