Mary van Kleeck & Mary L. Fleddérus (Directors IRI) - On Economic Planning, Papers delivered at the Regional Study Conference of the International Industrial Relations Institute (IRI), New York, November 23-27, 1934 - New York, Covici, Friede Inc., 1935 - 1st edition - 275p. - Hardcover: linen binding with gold printed spine - 14.10x20.80cm - Good copy: gold print on the spine, weathered, some white spots on the front cover, front endpaper with owner's stamp, endpapers discolored (text block clean).

• Mary Abby van Kleeck (1883–1972) was an American social scientist of the 20th century. She was a notable figure in the American labor movement as well as a proponent of scientific management and a planned economy.
• Mary Fleddérus (1886–1977) was a Dutch social reformer and researcher who, together with Mary Van Kleeck, headed the International Industrial Relations Institute, which later became the Russell Sage Foundation. She was a pioneer in the study of industrial relations in Europe.
• International Industrial Relations Institute (I.R.I.) was an international organisation that existed from 1925 to 1947. The first proposal to establish an organisation for the "study and improvement of human conditions in industry" arose in the First International Conference on Industrial Welfare at the Chateau d' Argeronne, Argonne, France in 1922.

The institute was led by Mary van Kleeck, an American social reformer, and Mary Fleddérus, a Dutch activist, and approached scientific management from a particular perspective: what they termed the human factor. From the outset it had close links with women's organisations such as the World Young Women's Christian Association and the Women's Trade Union League. (Sources : Wikipedia)

•      Leon Pratt Alford (1877–1942) was an American mechanical engineer, organizational theorist, and administrator for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. known for his seminal work in the field of industrial management.
•      Earl Russell Browder (1891–1973) was an American politician, spy for the Soviet Union, communist activist and leader of the Communist Party USA.
•      Harold Butler (1921–1998) was an American entrepreneur. He is best known for being the founder of the Denny's casual dining restaurant chain.
•      David Cushman Coyle (1887–1969) was an American structural engineer, economist, and writer. Coyle was the structural engineer of the Washington State Capitol and a prominent economic thinker during the New Deal.
•      Alfons Goldschmidt (1879-1940) was a German journalist, economist and university lecturer.
•      Milton C. Handler (1903–1998) was an American lawyer and professor of law. He was considered a "leading antitrust expert and drafter of some of the nation's best-known laws."
•      Simon Smith Kuznets (1901–1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."
•      Harry Wellington Laidler (1884–1970) was an American socialist writer, magazine editor, and politician.
•      Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky (1887–1938) (who worked under the party pseudonym Nikolai Osinsky) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, Soviet politician, economist and Professor of the Agricultural Academy of Moscow.
•      Walter Nicholas Polakov (1879–1948) was a mechanical engineer, consulting engineer, and pioneer of scientific management.
•      Rose Schneiderman (1882–1972) was a Polish-born American labor organizer and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders.
•     George Henry Soule Jr. (1887–1970) was an American labor economist, author, and a long time editor and contributor to The New Republic.
•      Maxwell S. Stewart (1901-1990) was an editor (The Nation), author and economist.
•      Milburn Lincoln Wilson (1885–1969) was an American Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman under the New Deal and Fair Deal.

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