Supervision and Authority in Industry : Western European Experiences, 1830-1939.
The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of the neglected aspects in the history of labour...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2009.
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Colección: | International Studies in Social History, 15
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of the neglected aspects in the history of labour relations. After an insightful introductory chapter discussing the different forms of supervision in the United States, Britain, France and Germany before the First World War, the case studies in this volume focus on foremen: vital, but largely unstudied figures in the history of factory life, labou. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (244 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781845459420 1845459423 1282628003 9781282628007 |