The East India Company's London workers : management of the warehouse labourers, 1800-1858 /

The East India Company, which was by 1800 a commercial organisation of unrivalled size and complexity managing a vast empire in Asia, also played a crucial role in the British economy, particularly in London, where the Company was the largest employer of civilian labour in the early nineteenth centu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Makepeace, Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2010.
Series:Worlds of the East India Company ; v. 5.
Subjects:
East India Company > Employees > History > 19th century.
East India Company > Employees > Economic conditions > 19th century.
East India Company > History > 19th century.
East India Company
1800-1899
Warehouses > England > London > Management > History > 19th century.
Unskilled labor > England > London > History > 19th century.
Entrepôts > Angleterre > Londres > Gestion > Histoire > 19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Employees
Employees > Economic conditions
Unskilled labor
Warehouses > Management
England > London
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The East India Company warehouses
  • The warehouse labourers
  • Management strategies : incentives, rewards and benevolence
  • Management strategies : systems of internal control
  • The Royal East India Volunteers : the "union of civil and military dependence"
  • The relationship between the East India Company and its London warehouse labourers
  • The warehouse closures
  • Management of the warehouse labourers and pensioners, 1838-1858
  • Conclusion : "Good masters to the lower class of their dependents."

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