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

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wadauer, Sigrid (Editor), Buchner, Thomas (Editor), Mejstrik, Alexander (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Series:International studies in social history ; v. 26.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Employment agencies > History > 19th century.
Employment agencies > History > 20th century.
Labor > History > 19th century.
Labor > History > 20th century.
Bureaux de placement > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Bureaux de placement > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Travail > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Employment agencies.
Labor.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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