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The history of labour intermediation : institutions and finding employment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /

Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentiet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wadauer, Sigrid (Editor ), Buchner, Thomas (Editor ), Mejstrik, Alexander (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Colección:International studies in social history ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Organizing the Market?
  • Chapter 2 Between Labour Market Constituencies
  • Chapter 3 Organizing Labour Markets
  • Chapter 4 Creating a National LabourMarket
  • Chapter 5 From Placement Control to Control of the Unemployed
  • Chapter 6 Labour Intermediation, Uncertain Employment and the bourses du travail
  • Chapter 7 Transforming Soldiers into Workers
  • Chapter 8 The Use of Public Labour Offices by Job Seekers in Interwar Austria
  • Chapter 9 A Vocation in the Family Household?
  • Chapter 10 Tramping in Search of Work
  • Chapter 11 Labour Mediation among Seasonal Workers, Particularly the Lippe Brickmakers, 1650-1900
  • Chapter 12 Sardars, Kanganies and Maistries
  • Chapter 13 'Organizing the Labour Market' in a Liberal Welfare State
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.