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Bureau of Industrial Research
FounderIndustrial Workers of the World
Purpose"to promote sound human relationships in industry by consultation, fact studies and publicity"
Headquarters289 Fourth Avenue
Location
  • New York, USA

The Bureau of Industrial Research was a New York City-based labor research organization.[1]

History

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In 1920, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) created the Bureau of Industrial Research to address such issues, in part due to the influence of the technocratic ideas of Howard Scott. In 1921, a series of articles by or about the Bureau appeared in the Industrial Pioneer.[2]

Description

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The group described itself as an organization "to promote sound human relationships in industry by consultation, fact studies and publicity." Its Manhattan offices had a library on current industrial relations. It offered to supply data "at moderate cost" to interested parties, whether individuals, corporations, labor organizations, or the press.[1]

Members

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In 1921,[1] its members included:

Publications

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  • How the Government Handled Its Labor Problems During the War (1919)[5]
  • Industrial Council Plan in Great Britain (1919)[6]
  • Report on the Steel Strike of 1919 (1919)[7]
  • Workers' Education (1921)[1]
  • Public Opinion and the Steel Strike (1921)[8]
  • National Council for the Printing Trades (1921)[9]
  • Modern Social Movements (1921)[10]
  • In Non-Union Mines (1922)[11]
  • Open Shop Drive; Who is Behind it and Where is it Going? (1921)[12]
  • Strike for Union (1924)[13]
  • Anthracite Question (1924)[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Gleason, Arthur (25 June 1921). Workers' Education: American and Foreign Experiments. Bureau of Industrial Research. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  2. ^ Gambs, John Saké (1932). The Decline of the I.W.W. Columbia University Press. p. 157. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Savel Zimand papers". University of Minnesota. February 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Xavel Zimand correspondence 1919-1920". New York Public Library. 1925. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  5. ^ How the Government Handled Its Labor Problems During the War: Handbook of the Organizations Associated with the National Labor Administration; with Notes on Their Personnel, Functions and Policies. Bureau of Industrial Research. 1919. pp. 4 (Wilson, Frankfurter), 10–11 (creation, purpose, personnel, organization). Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  6. ^ Industrial Council Plan in Great Britain: reprints of the Report of the Whitley committee on relations between employers and employed of the Ministry of reconstruction and of related documents. Bureau of Industrial Research. 1919. LCCN 19006503. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  7. ^ Report on the Steel Strike of 1919, by the Commission of Inquiry, the Interchurch World Movement... with the technical assistance of the Bureau of Industrial Research. Harcourt, Brace and Howe. 1920. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  8. ^ Public Opinion and the Steel Strike, supplementary reports of the investigators to the Commission of Inquiry, the Interchurch World Movement... with the technical assistance of the Bureau of Industrial Research. Harcourt, Brace and Howe. 1921. LCCN 21019062. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  9. ^ Walker, Charles R. (February 1921). National Council for the Printing Trades; reprinted from the Monthly labor review, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Harcourt, Brace and Howe. LCCN 21010419. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  10. ^ Zimand, Savel (1921). Modern Social Movements. H.W. Wilson Co. LCCN 21026739. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  11. ^ Hapgood, Powers (1922). In Non-Union Mines: The Diary of a Coal Digger in Central Pennsylvania, August–September, 1921. Bureau of Industrial Research.
  12. ^ Zimand, Savel (1921). Open Shop Drive; Who is Behind it and Where is it Going?. Bureau of Industrial Research. LCCN 21006423. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  13. ^ Blankenhor, Heber (1924). Strike for Union: a study of the non-union question on coal and the problems of a democratic movement based on the record of the Somerset strike, 1922-23. H.W. Wilson Co. LCCN 24013825. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  14. ^ Raushenbush, Stephen (1924). Anthracite Question. H.W. Wilson Co. LCCN 24013825. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
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