The East India Company's London workers
Subtitle: management of the warehouse labourers, 1800-1858
By: Margaret Makepeace
Series: Worlds of the East India Company -- v. 5
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781843835851
Subjects: East India Company; Management; Economic conditions; Employees; Unskilled labor; Warehouses; History
Description: Positions the English East India Company at the center of the early 19th century London economy. Analyzes the composition of the warehouse workforce and explores laborers' work experiences through case histories.
Notes: "This book is based on my doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Leicester in 2007."--P. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The East India Company warehouses; title: The warehouse labourers; title: Management strategies : incentives, rewards and benevolence; title: Management strategies : systems of internal control; title: The Royal East India Volunteers : the "union of civil and military dependence"; title: The relationship between the East India Company and its London warehouse labourers; title: The warehouse closures; title: Management of the warehouse labourers and pensioners, 1838-1858; title: Conclusion : "Good masters to the lower class of their dependents".