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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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