Worlds Beginning

TitleWorlds Beginning
Year for Search1944
AuthorsArdrey, Robert
Date Published1944
PublisherDuell, Sloan and Pearce
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The successful struggle to create a eutopia based on a complex new form of industry that gives workers partial ownership of the company and, it is argued, the incentive to do their best work. Set in the U.S. twenty years after World War II, which had been followed by industrial, class, and racial conflict, leading to a year called "the terror".

Additional Publishers

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. 

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Author Note

The U. S. author (1908-90) died in South Africa.

Full Text

1944 Ardrey, Robert (1908-90). Worlds Beginning. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. L, PSt

The successful struggle to create a eutopia based on a complex new form of industry that gives workers partial ownership of the company and, it is argued, the incentive to do their best work. Set in the U.S. twenty years after World War II, which had been followed by industrial, class, and racial conflict, leading to a year called “the terror”. The U. S. author died in South Africa.