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Frontmatter -- Notes and Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- SUMNER HUBER SLICHTER / Dunlop, John T. -- Part I. THE AMERICAN ECONOMY -- 1. Technology and the Great American Experiment -- 2. The Growth of Moderation -- 3. Our Economy- Is It Politics-Proof? -- 4. The Growth of Competition -- 5. Strong Points and Weak Points in the American Economy -- Part II. THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK -- 6. The Immediate Unemployment Problem -- 7. Safeguards Against Depressions: An Analysis of Depression Cures -- 8. Postwar Boom or Collapse -- 9. Survey of Our Economy: Pluses and Minuses -- 10. How Stable Is the Economy? -- 11. The Financial Condition of the United States -- 12. Inflation-Α Problem of Shrinking Importance -- 13. Current Trends, Problems, and Prospects in the American Economy -- Part III. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS -- 14. Industrial Morale -- 15. The Current Labor Policies of American Industries -- 16. The Changing Character of American Industrial Relations -- 17. Trade Unions in a Free Society -- 18. Are We Becoming a "Laboristic" State? -- 19. Labor's New Victory: Threat or Promise? -- 20. The American System of Industrial Relations: Some Contrasts with Foreign Systems -- 21. New Goals for the Unions -- Part IV. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY ISSUES -- 22. Technological Unemployment- Lines of Action, Adaptation, and Control -- 23. The Impact of Social-Security Legislation upon Mobility and Enterprise -- 24. The Conditions of Expansion -- 25. Notes on the Structure of Wages -- 26. Do the Wage-Fixing Arrangements in the American Labor Market Have an Inflationary Bias? -- 27. Comments on the Steel Report- Raising the Price of Labor as a Method of Increasing Employment -- 28. Economics and Collective Bargaining -- THE WRITINGS OF SUMNER H. SLICHTER -- INDEX -- Backmatter