Actual experiments in the control of economic life by the producers are described by C.L. Goodrich ("The Frontier of Control," New York, Harcourt, 1920), who seeks to answer the question: How much control over industry do the rank and file of those who work in it and their organizations in fact exercise? "The Collectivist State in the Making," (Emil Davies, London, Bell, 1914) and "Socialism in Theory and Practice," (H.W. Laidler, New York, Macmillan, 1919), cover somewhat the same ground. The Whitley Committee, in its "Report of an Enquiry into Works Committees" (Great Britain, Labor Ministry) goes into detail on this point. The experiments in Russia are nowhere adequately covered, "The Soviets at Work" (Lenin) was a prediction and a hope rather than a review of achievements. More recent books have been either violently partisan or else so superficially descriptive that they conveyed no idea of the actual state of the economic experiment. It is, of course, in Russia, that the experiments in workers' control are being carried forward on the largest and most complete scale. There are many other books in English, books in German, French and Russian, pamphlets, magazine articles by the thousands, and reports of special investigations in various technical fields, all of which offer ample opportunity for further study along the lines suggested in this book. INDEX Acquisition, menace of, 156 Administration, basis of world, 119 Administrative and producing groups, 111 Administrative authority, concentration of, 81 Administration boards, function of, 122 America, resource monopoly of, 19 American imports, 125 American industry, phases of, 59 Association, scope of, 53 Authority, centralization of, 81 Bankers, as arbiters of industry, 102 Bankers, power of, 102 Barriers to progress, 147 Basic industries, and resources, 19 British foreign investments, 39 Brotherhood, new possibilities of, 20 Budget board, 131 Budget deficits, 30 Business and geographic lines, 62 Business federation, development of, 105 Business organization, nature of, 61 Business, world character of, 62 Capital, transfers of to producer groups, 131 Capitalism and nationalism, 63 Capitalism and profiteering, 65 Capitalism and the class struggle, 66 Capitalism, assumptions of, 139 Capitalism, centralization of, 63 Capitalism, establishment of, 36 Capitalism, failure of, 62 Capitalism, growth of, 66 Capitalism in the Western world, 36 Capitalism, initiative under, 63 Capitalism, limitations on, 62 Capitalism, modifications in, 140 Capitalism, plutocracy under, 65 Capitalism, world role of, 62 Capitalist experiment, 138 Catastrophe, menace of, 146 Centralization, in American industry, 59 Chance, part of in progress, 136 Change and chaos, 48 Chaos and change, 48 Class struggle, and capitalism, 66 Climate and civilization, 45 Civilization and climate, 45 Coal, as a factor in civilization, 78 Coal, production of, 17