[Review of the book Employee Representation

Abstract

Reviews the book, Employee Representation by Ernest Richmond Burton (1926). Anyone wishing to gain a thorough understanding of employee representation can not do better than to read this book. Its five divisions are orientation, needs and purposes, organization, administration, and results. Each subject is discussed in detail, from many angles, and apparently without bias. The book is primarily concerned not with theories and Utopian schemes but with actual plans that have been or are being tried out. Principles are derived from the success or failure of various attempts at this particular phase of management. The author thus is thrown for his material largely upon the published reports of industrial concerns and students of industry. Footnote references to these are very complete. The style of the book does not make for particularly easy reading, and anyone not genuinely interested in the subject will probably never finish reading it. To those whose interest is sufficient to carry them through it will prove to be a veritable mine of useful information. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)