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The Business of Benevolence : Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America /

In the early twentieth century, an era characterized by unprecedented industrial strife and violence, thousands of employers across the United States pioneered a new policy of labor relations called welfare work. The paternalistic practices and forms of compensation they introduced were designed not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tone, Andrea, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The Politics of Labor Reform
  • Ch. 2. Welfare Work and Industrial Efficiency
  • Ch. 3. The "Human Face" of American Capitalism
  • Ch. 4. Gender and Welfare Work
  • Ch. 5. Organized Labor Responds
  • Ch. 6. The Rank and File
  • Ch. 7. Benefits for Breadwinners.