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Stephan Bauer, 1865-1934.

Austrian labor economist of historicist bent, long-time director of the ILO and professor at Basel.

Born in Hütteldorf, near Vienna, Stephan (or Stephen) Bauer to a bourgeois Jewish family.  After converting to Protestantism in the 1880s, Stephan Bauer studied at the University of Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in 1889 under Eugen von Philippovich, with a treatise on the iron law of wages .  He subsequently obtained a studying fellowship to Paris and London.  In 1892, Bauer was appointed as secretary and statistician to the chamber of commerce in Brünn (Brno, Hapsburg Moravia). In 1893, with L.M. Hartmann, Carl Grünberg and E. Szanto, Stephan Bauer founded the social and economic history journal, the Zeitschrift für Social- und Wirthschaftsgeschichte, which he would revive in 1903 under the title Vierteljahrschrift für Social- und Wirthschaftsgeschichte (VSWG) as serve as chief editor.  From 1894, Bauer also lectured as privatdozent at the Technical School of Brünn.  It is presumed that anti-semitism may have held back his appointment to salaried chairs in Germany and Austria.  Nonetheless, in 1899, after lecturing for a semester at Chicago, Stephan Bauer finally secured a position as associate professor in economics and statistics the University of Basel (Switzerland), where he would remained until hi death. Bauer was raised to ordinary professor at Basel in 1921. 

Stephan Bauer was a founder of the  International Association for Legal Protection of Workers/Labor Legislation (f.1900 in Paris), serving as its general secretary until 1925.  Bauer was also a director of its research arm, the International Labor Office in Basel, serving from 1901 until 1919, when it was recast as the modern International Labor Organization (ILO), a division of the League of Nations.

An able historian of economic thought, Stephan Bauer contributed several seminal studies on Mercantilism and the Physiocrats (it was Bauer who discovered, in 1894, the original 1759 printed edition of Quesnay's Tableau among the papers of Mirabeau in the national archives in Paris.)  Bauer also contributed numerous articles to Conrad's Handwörterbuch and Palgrave's Dictionary.

 

  

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Major Works of Stephan Bauer

  • "Über die Erfassung und Messung des Volksvermögens bei den englischen Merkantilisten und politischen Arithmetikern", 1887, Statistiche Monastschrift, p.580
  • "Studies on the Origins of French Economists", 1890, QJE, p.100-107 [js, av]
  • "Zur Entstehung der Physiokratie, Auf Grund ungedruckter Schriften François Quesnays", 1890, JNS, p.113
  • "Nicholas Barbon, Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte der klassischen Oekonomik", 1890, p.561
  • "Arbeiterfragen und Lohnpolitik in Australasien", 1891, JNS, p.641
  • "Letters from Austria", EJ, 1891, p.814, 1892, p.559, 1894 p.725
  • Articles in in J. Conrad, 1892, Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften,
    • "Fawcett" (p.362) and "Gewerbegesetzbung in Grossbritannien" (p.998), in volume.3 (1892)
    • "Konsumtionsbudget der Haushaltung" (p.820) in volume 4 (1892)
  • Articles in
    • in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor, 1894, Dictionary of Political Economy, vol. 1.
  • "Quesnay's Tableau Economique", with unpublished letters", 1895, EJ, (Mar), p.1
  • "Note on the Biography of Quesnay", 1895, EJ, p.660
  • Die Arbeiter der Brünner Maschinen-Industrie, 1895
  • "Die Landarbeiter in Österreich", 1896, Die Zeit, Pt. I (Feb 29, p.137), Pt. II (Mar 7, p.150),  Pt. III(Mar 14, p.168)
  • "Die Heimarbeit und ihre geplante Regelung in Oesterrich", 1897, AfSGS, p.239
  • "Die Ausgleich und die Industrie', 1899, Deustche Worte, p.124
  • "Review of Schmoller's Umrisse", 1899, JPE [av]
  • Die Aufgaben des Internationalen Arbeitsamtes, 1901
  • "The International Labour Office in Basle", 1903, EJ, p.438
  • "Die geschichtlichen Motive des internationalen Arbeiterschutzes", 1903, VSWG, p.79
    "Einleitung", 1903 in Bauer, editor Die gewerbliche Nachtarbeit der Frauen, 1903 [bk, av]
  • "Einleitung", 1903, in Bauer, editor, Gesundheitsgefährliche Industrien [bk]
  • "Die Entwicklung zum Zehnstundentage", 1904, AfSS, p.203
  • "Die neuere Kinderschutzgesetzgebung in Deutshcland und in Grossbritannien", 1904, AfSS, p.616
  • Denkschriften zur Vorbereitung internationaler Arbeiterschutzverträge, 1904
  • "Preissteigerung und Reallohnpolitik" with Irving Fisher, 1911, Annalen für Soziale Politik und Gesetzgebung.
  • Fortgang und Tragweite der internationalen Arbeiterschutzverträge, 1913
  • Das Existenzminimum in Recht und Wirtschaft, 1914 [av]
  • Sozialpolitik im Kriege und nach Friedensschluss, 1917 [hth]
  • Arbeiterschutz und Völkergemeinschaft, 1918 [hth]
  • International Labor Legislation and the Society of Nations, 1919 (Bulletin of BLS)

 
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Resources on  Stephan Bauer

  • "Review of Bauer's Australasien" by John Rae, 1892, EJ, p.131
  • Note on Stephan Bauer in AAPSS 1894, p.804 1901 p.109.
  • "The International Congress for Legal Protection of Workers" by William Willoughby, 1901,  Report of the International Universal Exposition in Paris, p.324
  • "Bauer, Stephan" in Neue Deutsche Biographie
  • Bauer entry in NDB
  • Bauer entry at Hist Lex der Schweiz
  • Wikipedia
 
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