New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Spine ends bumped and rubbed, long thread trapped under front pastedown. DJ has chips to all corners and spine ends, short closed tears and splits. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The author was a machine designer who developed strong opinions regarding the aspects of "labor" in the manufacturing environments he worked in. He advocates good-faith and mutual benefit and definitely skewers the fringes and extreme elements of both labor and management. An excellent view of the state of labor relations in US wartime: equivalent to primary material for the historian. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the inscription "For Mary Ellen Green / I have been told that / Free Enterprise can / also be applied to / the age old custom / of marriage / Ray Millholland" Author was an early champion of increasing efficiency by implementation of worker suggestions and an author of at least 40 short stories which probably relieved the tedium of being so relentlessly efficient. Green cloth over boards. A clean VG copy in a decent-looking VG- DJ. ; 8vo; 240 pages .