Frederic Le Play — L'ORGANISATION DU TRAVAIL….

Tours, Paris, Mame, Dentu, 1870...selon la coutume des Ateliers et la Loi di décalogue avec un précis d’observations comparées sur la distinction du bien et du mal dans le régime du travail, les causes du mal actuel et les moyens de réforme... Deuxième édition, revue et corrigée. - Un volume in 8o piccolo di XII-564 pagine. Graziosa legatura coeva in mezza pergamena a punte, dorso liscio ornato e dorato, tassello rosso. Ottime condizioni. - "As a pioneer in establishing the methodology of the social-survey analysis in all of these various works, Le Play utilized the device of the family budget for the purpose of determining standards of living. He came to the conclusion that working-class families have so meager an economic existence that all their social organization and habits are bound up with the family budget, especially when the budget is dependent upon wage labor, which in turn is dependent upon the amount of labor available, that is, the geographical location of the family home. Through his studies of the family undervariegated geographical conditions, he was a pioneer in the use of the comparative method in sociology." (Gale Encyclopedia).