During the past eight years, the Institute of Industrial Relations has
participated in the Inter-University Study of Labor Problems in Eco-
nomic Development, which has been supported by a generous grant
from the Ford Foundation and more recently by a second grant from
the Carnegie Corporation. Conducted in coöperation with industrial
relations centers at Harvard, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and the University of Chicago, the project has been di-
rected by Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick H. Harbison, and
Charles A. Myers. Their book, Industrialism and Industrial Man
( 1960), includes a list of all the participants in the project and of the
numerous publications that have resulted from it.

Included in the plans for the Inter-University Study from an early
stage was the preparation of two volumes of essays on the labor move-
ment and industrial relations in selected countries, to be edited by
Walter Galenson. Although the more highly industrialized countries
were, for the most part, to be excluded, the essays were to deal with
countries in various stages of industrialization. An effort was made to
include a large enough group of relatively underdeveloped countries
to provide a wide range of illustrations of patterns of labor relations
likely to emerge in the course of economic development. Another im-
portant consideration in the selection of countries was the availability
of experts who had acquired substantial firsthand knowledge of their
respective countries or areas.

The first or the two volumes, Labor and Economic Development
(published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959), included chapters on
India, Japan, Egypt, French West Africa, and the British West Indies.

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