Reprinted in part from various periodicals "Brandeis," by E. Poole.--Business--a profession.--The Employer and trades unions.--Hours of labor.--Organized labor and efficiency.--The road to social efficiency.--Our new peonage: discretionary pensions.--The incorporation of trades unions.--How Boston solved the gas problem.--Life insurance: the abuses and the remedies.--Savings bank insurance.--Success of savings bank life insurance.--Trusts and efficiency.--Trusts and the export trade.--Competition that kills.--The New England transportation monopoly.--The New Haven--an unregulated monopoly.--An aid to railroad efficiency.--The opportunity in the law Rare Annex copy 1: Gift of Willard Fiske Rare Annex copy 2: Gift in memory of Mary Stephens Sherman from John H. Sherman