Emil Lederer · 1915
Lederer’s brief review situates Buelens’s study within the emerging French interest in social policy specifically for salaried employees. German experience supplies its comparative reference:
Das umfangreiche Werk hat den Zweck, auf die spezifisch deutsche Angestelltensozialpolitik hinzuweisen.
English translation: The extensive work has the purpose of drawing attention to the specifically German social policy for salaried employees.
The review follows the book from employees’ social origins, economic circumstances, and working hours to legislation, chiefly employment-contract law differentiated by occupational group. It also notes a separate discussion of salaries and working time. Lederer expects this comprehensive treatment to stimulate French interest and encourage employees to organize in pursuit of their interests.
His assessment distinguishes documentary thoroughness from sociological interpretation. Buelens carefully uses official materials, organizational accounts, and available scholarship, but offers little explanation of their broader social significance:
In der Deutung der Erscheinungen und der Einstellung in die sozialen Zusammenhänge ist es von außerordentlicher Zurückhaltung.
English translation: In the interpretation of the phenomena and in their placement within the social connections it is of extraordinary reserve.
The closing reservation qualifies the review’s positive account of the book’s informational and practical value. Lederer presents it as a resource for extending employee-specific social policy across national borders, while marking the distance between documenting employment conditions and interpreting their place within social relations.
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