Power, Profits and Patriarchy. The social organization of work at a British metal trades firm, 1791-1922
Details:
- Author(s) Staples, William G, & Clifford L Staples
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2001
- Pages 203pp
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefields Publishers
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee management inc control
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Essentially of relevance to labour history, industrial sociology and gender studies, it concerns the nature, evolution, etc, of relationships between owners/managers and workers in the family owned firm of Kendricks, touching on areas such as paternalism, industrial relations, work organisation, etc. Chapters include: '"Masters and servants" - the foundations of patriarchy, 1791-1867'; 'With "liberty and kindness". The genesis of paternalism, 1868-1891'; '"Are you not paid to think" - the collapse of paternalism, 1892-1913'; '"A personal interest in the prosperity of their employees" - bureaucratic hegemony and the origins of social patriarchy'