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THE LABOR POLICY
OF
THE FREE SOCIETY

by

SYLVESTER PETRO

PROFESSOR OF LAW
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

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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 appetites committed 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.

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 in common, not the least of which is their common relevance to those prominent 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 proponents.

Society is something temporary and ephemeral; man, however, is always man.

—Albert Schweitzer

. . . the movement in the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract.

—Sir Henry Maine