Book Review: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
tiates him from the "capitalist" .........the man who lives upon income from investments-and from the "laborer", who lives by wages paid for physical work. 'I'his is clear enough so far as definetion is concerned. But, included in the .middle class thus defined, are occupational groups so varied and diverse that one questions whether they can be said to form a social class, in any definite sense of that word. As a matter of fact, these varied and diverse groups seem to have no class consciousness; indeed, very little consciousness of community of interests; no cohesion, therefore, and no organization. 1t cannot be denied that "brain workers." have suffered in the re-adjustments that have taken place since the war. Perhaps this has been due to their lack of solidarity. And tin certain countries, notably the more distressed and depressed countries of Europe, many professional men, such as teachers, are being compelled to enter the ranks of labor to avoid slow starvation. Everywhere men who must depend upon the work of their brains for a ldving are in an unusually difficult position; and our author is certainly right in contending that thlis bodes no good for the world. The author's solution for the problematical situation is the establishment of what he calls "the industrial repubhic". He does not work out in detail his conception of this proposed social order; but in general ;it consists in a modification of Guild Socialism. He would have all industries governed by elected representatives of capital and labor; and the government of the country placed largely, if not wholly, in the hands of such elected representatives. He thinks that such an arrangemnt would bring the "middle class" back to its proper position of influence. C. S. GARDNER.