A Country without Strikes Lloyd Reeves Paperback Cambridge University Press

A Country without StrikesA Visit to the Compulsory Arbitration Court of New Zealand\nAuthor(s): Henry Demarest Lloyd, William Pember Reeves\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108039475, 978-1108039475\nSynopsis\nHenry Demarest Lloyd [tel], writer and social reformer, rose to prominence as one of America's first muckraker journalists. Born in New York City, Lloyd started his journalism career at the Chicago Tribune and went on to expose the abuse of power in American oil companies. He also pursued a career in politics. In 1899 he travelled to New Zealand and Australia, the 'political laboratories' of Great Britain, to investigate how they resolved the conflict between organised capital and organised labour, and how they promoted social welfare. This book, published in 1900, praises New Zealand's system of compulsory arbitration and describes many instances of successful dispute resolution, from c.