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John Graham Brooks
1846–1938
A former Unitarian minister who became a noted writer on labor and social reform, this American public thinker spent decades studying how industrial life could be made fairer. His work brought together religion, economics, and a practical concern for working people.
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The Conflict between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship
by John Graham Brooks
About the author
Born in Acworth, New Hampshire, on July 19, 1846, John Graham Brooks studied at Oberlin and Harvard Divinity School before entering the Unitarian ministry. He later left parish work and turned toward writing, lecturing, and research on labor relations, social reform, and economic life.
Brooks became known as a sociologist, political reformer, and author who tried to understand the tensions of industrial society without embracing rigid ideology. He wrote on trade unions, cooperation, and the condition of workers, and he was widely regarded as a thoughtful interpreter of labor questions for American readers.
He remained active as a public intellectual well into later life and died on February 8, 1938. Today he is remembered as one of those bridge figures who connected moral reform, serious social study, and the everyday realities of working people in the United States.