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Robert Franklin was born April 29, 1868 in Edmeston, New York, United States. He was the son of Lucy Peet (Stickney) and Solomon Hoxie, stock-breeder and importer of Holstein cattle.
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Robert Franklin Hoxie
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Hoxie studied at Cornell University and at the University of Chicago (Bachelor of Philosophy, 1893; Doctor of Philosophy, 1905). He learned "how not to teach economics" at Cornell College, Iowa (1896 - 1898), Washington University, St. Louis (1898 - 1901), Washington and Lee (1901 - 1902), and Cornell University (1903 - 1906).
Career
He spent a decade as a graduate teacher at Chicago (1906 - 16). In 1914-15 he was a special investigator for the United States Commission on Industrial Relations.
Hoxie was an inquirer. He could not satisfy a demand for honest truth by accepting authority; he had to test what the books say by reference to the facts. Yet he was no devotee of mere description; he dealt with facts in their relation to problems, and demanded both facts and consistent theory. He was painstaking in analyzing his problem, diligent in gathering data, and painfully conscientious in determining what it all meant. In his mind there was endless conflict between the cautious student and the bold adventurer.
As a student he wanted to inquire into all that related to his subject "from the esoteric cogitations of the social philosopher down to the mud sills of human experience" ("Sociology and the Other Social Sciences, " American Journal of Sociology, May 1907, p. 746). As an adventurer, a cogitation or a sill would tempt him to go exploring. His development is marked by conscientious tarrying and restless wandering. He began by teaching and even accepting a mechanistic system of economic laws; but he failed to discover such a system in industrial America. Instead he chanced upon change and sought help in history, but found the books a hopeless tangle of relevancy and irrelevancy and the historians disposed to indiscriminate indulgence in mere historical narrative.
He was among the first to suggest making history a method of analysis, or using a genetic account to explain a contemporary situation ("Historical Method versus Historical Narrative, " Journal of Political Economy, November 1906, p. 568). His suspicion of large and comfortable truths, the fascination of the world of affairs about him, and a concern with the human incidence of industry led him, almost without conscious choice, to a study of labor. He discovered that there is no unionism, there are only varying types of unions; of these he elaborated a theory in terms of structure and function, his most important contribution; and he planned, but did not complete, a comprehensive work on the labor movement.
In a quarter century (1891 - 1916) of creative effort, Hoxie produced little finished work. A few articles, a book on Scientific Management and Labor (1915), which he did not want to print, and a collection of essays on Trade Unionism in the United States (1917), published after his death, attest the quality of his workmanship. An inveterate scribbler, he wrote primarily to clarify his own thought; he found it almost impossible to meet his own standards. He cared little for public reputation or academic recognition. His students were his public; to him inquiry and teaching were inseparable; he was forever following the quest wherever it led, in utter disregard of academic frontiers, with a pack of cubs at his heels. His distinctive work was in raising questions, in blazing trails, in sending youngsters adventuring.
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The Demand and Supply Concepts; An Introduction to the Study of Market Price: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts ... Philosophy (Department of Political Economy)
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Scientific Management and Labor Welfare
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The Demand and Supply Concepts; An Introduction to the Study of Market Price: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts ... Philosophy (Department of Political Economy)
Personality
Physical Characteristics: Robert Franklin Hoxie's health was never good. He suffered from fits of depression.
Connections
He married Lucy Bennett in 1898.
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Died
June 22, 1916 (aged 48) -
Resting place
Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Illinois, United States -
Nationality
American