George Henry Soule Jr. (June 11, 1887 – April 14, 1970) was an American labor economist, author, and a long time editor and contributor to ''

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''.

Background

George Soule was born in

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on June 11, 1887 and was graduated from

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in 1908.

Career

He was a member of the editorial staff of ''

'' from 1914 to 1918 and during 1919 editorial writer for the ''

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''. In 1920, Soule helped organize the Labor Bureau, Inc. (LBI), an independent professional group, with

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, Alfred L. Bernheim,

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. The LBI acted as economic advisers and public relations counselors for labor unions. Soule drafted a report on the labour policy of the Industrial Service Sections Ordnance Department and Air Service for the War Department and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He was a director of the Labour Bureau, Inc., which engages in economic research for labour organizations. He wrote the 1946 review of

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Personal and death

In 1940 he was married to Helen Flanders Dunbar. A daughter, Marcia, was born in 1942.

Works

*
The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry
' with J.M. Budish, 1920 * ''The Intellectual and the Labor Movement'', 1923 * ''The Coming American Revolution'', 1934 * ''A Planned Society'', 1935 * ''The Future of Liberty'', 1936 * ''Ideas of the Great Economists'', 1952 * ''Ideas of the Great Economist'', 1958 * ''The New Science of Economics'', 1964 * ''Planning U.S.A.'', 1967

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soule, George 1887 births 1970 deaths American labor economists 20th-century American writers American non-fiction writers 20th-century American newspaper editors The New Republic people Writers from Stamford, Connecticut Yale University alumni