A business and labour history of Britain : case studies of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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A business and labour history of Britain : case studies of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Description
By bringing together and critically engaging with accounts of certain themes in business and labour history, and utilizing original research, this book aims to widen understanding of industrial society and provide a background to further study and research in the area management and labour relations history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Themes and Historical Backdrop
- M.Richardson & P.Nicholls Labour, Management and Control: the Early Railway Industry in Britain
- P.Nicholls Women, Mechanization and Cost-Savings in Twentieth-Century British Banks and other Financial Institutions
- P.Wardley Bliss Tweed Mill Strike 1913-14: Causes, Conduct and Consequences
- M.Richardson Rapprochement and Retribution: the Divergent Experiences of Workers in Two Large Paper and Print Companies in the 1926 General Strike
- M.Richardson Work Relations: Compositors' Experiences in a Family-Owned Printing Company, J.W. Arrowsmith 1918-1939
- M.Richardson Organisation, Ideology and Control: Founding Principles: the Case of the BBC
- P.Nicholls Taylorism in the Mines? Technology, Work Organization and Management in British Coal-mining before Nationalization
- S.Tailby Shop-floor Bargaining and the Struggle for Job Control in the British Automobile and Aerospace Industries 1950-1982
- M.Richardson, P.Stewart & A.Danford
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