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 ; v. 15

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of the neglected aspects in the history of labour relations. After an insightful introductory chapter discussing the different forms of supervision in the United States, Britain, France and Germany before the First World War, the case studies in this volume focus on foremen: vital, but largely unstudied figures in the history of factory life, labou

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 Espana Industrial, Barcelona (1849-1888) / Cristina Borderias

Salaried authority : the versatile fate of contremaitres 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 / Jerome 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612628009

9781282628007

1282628003

9781845459420

1845459423

OCLC:

645102037