Striking a Bargain
Subtitle: Work and Industrial Relations in England, 1780-1850
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: August 5, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719049521
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Economic History; Industrial relations; Social history; Work & labour; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Industrial And Labor Relations; Business & Economics; History - General History; History: World; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Political Science / General
Description: "In this book, the author questions many of the commonly held assumptions concerning the nature of industrial relations during the early nineteenth century. Drawing upon a large amount of new evidence he shows convincingly that the shopfloors of industrialising Britain were the sites of continuous bargaining over issues such as wages, work-loads and working conditions - bargains whose existence long pre-dated the so-called mid-Victorian compromise. In doing so the author challenges the traditional chronology of the origins of Britain's industrial relations system and recovers the history of early nineteenth-century collective bargaining and arbitration systems." "Drawing from theories and methodologies from the social sciences, this book will be essential reading for all historians of the industrial revolution."--BOOK JACKET.