George H. Soule Jr.
Half-length portrait of George Henry Soule wearing a suit
GSoule in 1908
BornGeorge Henry Soule Jr.
(1887-06-11)June 11, 1887
Stamford, Connecticut, US
DiedApril 14, 1970(1970-04-14) (aged 82)
OccupationJournalist, economist, literary critic
Alma materYale University
Years active1914–1967
Spouse
  • Isobel Walker Soule
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    (m. 1923, divorced)​
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    (m. 1940⁠–⁠1959)​

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.[1][2]

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.[3][4]

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.[5]

He wrote the 1946 review of Animal Farm in The New Republic.[6]

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

References

  1. ↑ George H. Soule Jr. Dies at 82; Ex‐Editor of The New Republic, The New York Times
  2. ↑ Davis, Walter G., ed. (1908). History of the Class of 1908, Yale College. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University. p. 305.
  3. ↑ "Evans Clark, Writer, Is Dead; Director of 20th Century Fund". New York Times. 29 August 1970. p. 21. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Hendrickson, Mark (27 May 2013). American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression. Cambridge University Press. p. 112. ISBN 9781107028609. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans
  6. ↑ In 1946, The New Republic Panned George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'
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