Supervision and authority in industry : Western European experiences, 1830-1939 / edited by Patricia Van den Eeckhout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eeckhout, Patricia vanden, 1953-

Series:

International studies in social history ; v. 15.

International studies in social history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--Europe--History--Case studies.

Labor supply.

Supervision of employees--Europe--History--Case studies.

Supervision of employees.

Industrial management--History--Case studies.

Industrial management.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Contents:

Foremen in American and Western European industry before the First World War / Patricia Van den Eeckhout

Work organization and supervision in the textile industry : the case of la España Industrial, Barcelona (1849-1888) / Cristina Borderías

Salaried authority : the versatile fate of contremaîtres in the Ghent cotton industry (1830-1914) / Peter Scholliers

Secrets, lies, and contracts : conflicts between employers and their foremen in nineteenth-century Ghent (1885-1913) / Patricia Van den Eeckhout

'To organise liberty' : foremen and the effort bargain during British industrialization / James A. Jaffe

Wage forms and hierarchy in late nineteenth-century French industry / Jérôme Bourdieu and Gilles Postel-Vinay

Leading hands at work : technology, work organization and supervision in the British engineering industry, 1870-1914 / Joseph Melling

'Stealing the souls of men' : employers, supervisors, and work organization (ca. 1890-1939) / Richard Coopey and Alan McKinlay

Porions and conducteurs : supervisory functions in the Belgian limburg coal-mining industry (1917-1939) / Bart Delbroek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845456009

1845456009

OCLC:

316825697