The business of benevolence
Subtitle: industrial paternalism in progressive America
By: Andrea Tone.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Industrial welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: 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 only to control workers but also to advertise the humanity of corporate capitalism and thus to thwart the advance of legislated reform.

In a penetrating contribution to a burgeoning literature on the development of the U.S. welfare state, Andrea Tone offers a new interpretation of the role of welfare capitalism in the shaping of that development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.