...Warren J. Samuels Gregory R. Woirol. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. ix; 208 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Book Reviews 209 In 1987, two years after the publication of the German...

...Gregory R. Woirol Despite lack of support from professional economists, the idea of a tax on labor-saving machinery as a policy to help displaced workers had widespread popular appeal in the US throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s. A response to concerns about technological unemployment...

...Gregory R. Woirol Correspondence may be addressed to Gregory R. Woirol, Department of Economics, Whittier College, 13406 East Philadelphia, Whittier, CA 90608; e-mail: gwoirol@whittier.edu . Duke University Press 2006 Akin, William E. 1977 . Technocracy and the American Dream...

... and Structural Unemployment Debates. By Gregory R. Woirol. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. ix; 208 pp. Cloth, $59.95. This is a carefully detailed account and judicious critique of the technological unemployment controversy of the 1930s and the structural unemployment debate of the 1960s...

... ): 61 – 89 . Woirol Gregory R. 1992 . In the Floating Army: F. C. Mills on Itinerant Life in California, 1914 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics: 1900–1930 Malcolm Rutherford Over the period considered...

..., or cyclical, is important, worthy of more careful and less myopic scrutiny than economists have given it. Woirol has made a suggestive contribution to the social study of economic “sci- ence.” Some practice he finds consonant with both Kuhnian and Lakatosian mod- els, though mostly with the latter...

... . New York: H. W. Wilson. Woirol, Gregory R. 1999 . The Contributions of Frederick C. Mills. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 21 (June): 163 -85. Wolman, Leo. 1924 . The Growth of American Trade Unions, 1880-1923. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research. Worcester...