A Business and Labour History of Britain [electronic resource] : Case studies of Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries /
Richardson, M.editor.
Nicholls, P.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half title; Also by Mike Richardson; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Themes and Historical Backdrop; 2 Labour, Management and Control: The Early Railway Industry in Britain; 3 Women, Mechanization and Cost Savings in Twentieth Century British Banks and Other Financial Institutions; 4 Bliss Tweed Mill Strike 1913-14: Causes, Conduct and Consequences; 5 Rapprochement and Retribution: The Divergent Experiences of Workers in Two Large Paper and Print Companies in the 1926 General Strike
6 Work Relations: Compositors' Experiences in a Family-Owned Printing Company, J. W. Arrowsmith 1918-397 Organization, Ideology and Control - Founding Principles: The Case of the BBC; 8 Taylorism in the Mines? Technology, Work Organization and Management in British Coalmining before Nationalization; 9 Shop-Floor Bargaining and the Struggle for Job Control in the British Automobile and Aerospace Industries, 1950-82; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Economic sociology.
Management.
Organization.
Planning.
Economic history.
Behavioral economics.
Great Britain-History.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Management.
Organization.
Economic History.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
History of Britain and Ireland.