BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE following books, journals, and pamphlets deal wholly or in large part with National Guilds and the issues of Trade Unionism in the light of the Guild idea. There are also, of course, innumerable references to this in current publications upon economics, industry, etc.

Books.

National Guilds. By S. G. Hobson; edited by A. R. Orage. 5s.

This reprint of the well-known articles that appeared serially in the New Age in 1912 and 1913 represents the pioneer work of the National Guilds movement. It sketches the social and economic theory of the Guild idea and its general application to modern industry, and, as its sub-title denotes, is "an inquiry into the wage-system and the way out." Its work has been developed and adapted in the other books mentioned in this list. National Guilds is now in its second edition.

The World of Labour. (3rd Edition.) By G. D. H. Cole. 3s.

This book, which first appeared in 1913, is indispensable to the student of modern Labour problems, for it reviews the ideas and the recent developments of Labour organisations everywhere, as affected by and affecting the problem of the control of industry. Besides containing

the most valuable English account of the ideas of French Syndicalism and their effect, it provides a comprehensive study of the questions of structure and policy that confront the British Labour movement. It offers to the Guildsman, in a unique degree, the opportunity to base his thought and speculation on a sure foundation of knowledge of the essential problems and tendencies of contemporary Trade Unionism.

Guild Principles in War and Peace. By S. G. Hobson. 2s. 6d.

This volume comprises two series of connected chapters, besides a few additional isolated essays. Of the two series, the former contains a summary of the author's criticism of society and of his proposals for its re-creation; the latter, under the general title of the "Permanent Hypothesis," is an examination of certain Reconstruction proposals from the Guild standpoint. The book is prefaced by a valuable study of Unemployment after the War from the pen of the Editor of the New Age.

Self-government in Industry. By G. D. H. Cole. 4s. 6d.

The title of this book supplies the co-ordinating idea of a number of studies, both theoretical and practical, in the implications of Guild principles. Trade Unionism is discussed in relation to the question of restoring its surrendered conditions, and also, on the constructive side, as affected by the Shop Stewards movement. The transition to National Guilds is dealt with from the worker's

point of view, in a chapter on the abolition of the wage-system, and, from the standpoint of the State, in a section on the use and abuse of Nationalisation. There is also a chapter on " Freedom in the Guild," which includes a project for a Guild constitution; and an elaboration of a political theory hostile to State Sovereignty.

Old Worlds for New. By A. J. Penty. 3s. 6d.

This original and challenging book is a reprint of a series of articles, published on the eve of the War and described by their author as a study of the Post-Industrial State." They examine and contradict the moral and economic assumptions of capitalist Industrialism and its claims to benefit society and enlarge man's opportunities. The author, a friendly critic of National Guilds, confesses in his introduction that he now recognises National Guilds as an indispensable step in the development he seeks.

An Alphabet of Economics. By A. R. Orage. 4s. 6d.

In this book the Editor of the New Age sets out, by means of a glossary of economic terms, to develop a "more or less systematic attempt to define economics in terms of the wage-system, and, at the same time, to suggest an alternative to it." The penetrating and sometimes startling acuteness of the definitions make vivid and alive a subject which conventional economists have too often obscured, not only by dullness, but also by intellectual servility to the assumptions of Capitalism. To such the volume is a welcome antidote.

Authority, Liberty, and Function. By Ramiro de Maeztu. 4s. 6d.

The thesis of this book is that the basing of standards upon Authority for its own sake, or Liberty for its own sake, is both immoral and inhuman. The basis of any action is the perfection of the object involved. The outcome of the Authoritarian doctrine is revealed, politically, in Prussianism, and of the Liberal in anarchy. Applied to industry, the principle of duties and rights according to function" is demonstrated in the Guilds, the raison d'être of which is to secure neither the "authority" of a privileged class nor the "personality" of the mere individual, but the interests of the Guild work.

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Journals.

The New Age. Weekly, 6d. (38 Cursitor Street, London, E.C. 4.)

In the columns of this unique review the Guild idea was first formulated some half-dozen years ago, and has since been by many writers discussed and developed. It is here that all those interested in National Guilds will find both the evolution of Guild principles by exposition and controversy, and their application to current issues in editorial notes which, for vigour and insight, are unmatched in contemporary journalism.

The Guildsman.

Paisley.)

Monthly, 2d. (22 Glenview,

This periodical was founded by the Glasgow Group of the National Guilds League, and has been conducted and very largely written by them. Though at present only unofficially connected with the League, it forms a most valuable medium

for the discussion and propaganda of its principles, and also for the treatment of its internal affairs. The Herald (weekly, id.) contains a page of Trade Union notes compiled from the National Guilds standpoint; the Church Socialist (bi-monthly, 2d.) also editorially supports the National Guilds position.

PAMPHLETS, ETC.

1915. National Guilds: An Appeal to Trade Unionists

1915. A Catechism of National Guilds

2d.

Id.

1916. The Guild Idea: An Appeal to the Public. 2d. 1916. Towards a Miners' Guild

1917. Towards a National Railway Guild

2d.

2d.

Id.

1917. A Short Statement of the Principles and Objects of the National Guilds League 1917. Observations on the Whitley Report . 2d. 1918. Notes for Trade Unionists on the Whitley

Report

2d.

All the above pamphlets are published by the National Guilds League, 17 Acacia Road, St. John's Wood, N.W. 8.

(While this book is in no sense an "official" production or put forward under the direct auspices of any organisation, we think our readers may be interested to have some account of the National Guilds League, which was founded in April, 1915, to work for the "abolition of the wage-system, and the establishment of self-government in industry through a system of National Guilds working in

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