The Business of Benevolence : Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America / Andrea Tone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tone, Andrea, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial welfare--United States--History--20th century.

Industrial welfare.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the early twentieth century, an era characterized by unprecedented industrial strife and violence, thousands of employers across the United States pioneered a new policy of labor relations called welfare work. The results of the policy were paternalistic practices and forms of compensation designed not only to control workers, but also to advertise the humanity of corporate capitalism to thwart the advance of legislated reform. In a burgeoning literature on the development of the U.S. welfare state, Andrea Tone offers a new interpretation of the importance of welfare capitalism in shaping its development.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The Politics of Labor Reform

2. Welfare Work and Industrial Efficiency

3. The ''Human Face" of American Capitalism

4. Gender and Welfare Work

5. Organized Labor Responds

6. The Rank and File

7. Benefits for Breadwinners

Epilogue

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1748-0

OCLC:

1080551259