Supervision and authority in industry
Subtitle: Western European experiences, 1830/1939
By: edited by Patricia Van den Eeckhout.
Contributors: Eeckhout, Patricia vanden, 1953-
Series: International studies in social history
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845456009
Subjects: Labor supply -- Europe -- History -- Case studies; Supervision of employees -- Europe -- History -- Case studies; Industrial management -- Europe -- History -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foremen in American and Western European industry before the First World War / Patricia Van den Eeckhout; title: Work organization and supervision in the textile industry : the case of la Espanya Industrial, Barcelona (1849/88) / Cristina Borderøas; title: Salaried authority : the versatile fate of contremaøtres in the Ghent cotton industry (1830/1914) / Peter Scholliers; title: Secrets, lies, and contracts : conflicts between employers and their foremen in nineteenth-century (1885/1913) / Patricia Van den Eeckhout; title: 'To organize liberty' : foremen and the effort bargain during British industrialization / James A. Jaffe; title: Wage forms and hierarchy in late nineteenth-century French industry / Jørøme Bourdieu and Gilles Postel-Vinay; title: Leading hands at work : the impact of changes in technology, work organization, and payment systems on supervision in the British engineering industry (1870/1914) / Joseph Melling; title: 'Stealing the souls of men' : employers, supervisors, and work organization, c. 1890/1939 / Richard Coopey and Alan McKinlay; title: Porions and conducteurs : supervisory functions in the Belgian limburg coal-mining industry (1917/39) / Bart Delbroek.