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Local knowledge, state power, and the science of industrial labor relations: William Leiserson, David Saposs, and American labor economics in the interwar years

✍ Jessica Wang 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 126 KB

## Abstract Recent scholarship has frequently emphasized modern states' use of social science to impose universalized conceptions of rationality and order upon diverse, highly localized settings. The New Deal era experiences of William M. Leiserson and David J. Saposs, however, provide an analytica