George Henry Soule Jr. (June 11, 1887 – April 14, 1970) was an American labor economist, author, and a long time editor and contributor to The New Republic.
Background George Soule was born in Stamford, Connecticut on June 11, 1887, and was graduated from Yale University in 1908.George H. Soule Jr. Dies at 82; Ex‐Editor of The New Republic, The New York Times
Career
He was a member of the editorial staff of The New Republic from 1914 to 1918 and during 1919 editorial writer for the New York Evening Post.
In 1920, Soule helped organize the Labor Bureau, Inc. (LBI), an independent professional group, with Evans Clark, Alfred L. Bernheim, David J. Saposs. The LBI acted as economic advisers and public relations counselors for labor unions.
Soule drafted a report on the labour policy of the Industrial Service Sections Ordnance Department and Air Service for the War Department and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He was a director of the Labour Bureau, Inc., which engages in economic research for labour organizations.Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans
He wrote the 1946 review of Animal Farm in The New Republic.In 1946, The New Republic Panned George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'
Personal and death
In 1940 he was married to Helen Flanders Dunbar. A daughter, Marcia, was born in 1942.
Works The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry with J.M. Budish, 1920 The Intellectual and the Labor Movement, 1923 The Coming American Revolution, 1934 A Planned Society, 1935 The Future of Liberty, 1936 Ideas of the Great Economists, 1952 Ideas of the Great Economist, 1958 The New Science of Economics, 1964 Planning U.S.A., 1967
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