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The East India Company's London workers : management of the warehouse labourers, 1800-1858 / Margaret Makepeace.

Lippincott Library HD4853 .M35 2010
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Makepeace, Margaret.
Series:
Worlds of the East India Company
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
East India Company--History--19th century.
East India Company.
Warehouses--England--London--Management--History--19th century.
Warehouses.
Unskilled labor--England--London--History--19th century.
Unskilled labor.
History.
Management.
England--London.
Physical Description:
x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Woodbridge : Boydell, 2010.
Contents:
Introduction
The East India Company warehouses
The warehouse labourers
Management strategies : incentives, rewards and benevolence
Management strategies : systems of internal control
The Royal East India Volunteers : the "union of civil and military dependence"
The relationship between the East India Company and its London warehouse labourers
The warehouse closures
Management of the warehouse labourers and pensioners, 1838-1858
Conclusion : "Good masters to the lower class of their dependents".
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781843835851
1843835851
OCLC:
555622211

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