Managers and workers : origins of the twentieth-century factory system in the United States, 1880–1920 / Daniel Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Daniel, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial sociology--United States--History.

Industrial sociology.

Personnel management--United States--History.

Personnel management.

Factory system--United States--History.

Factory system.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 250 p. )

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the early years of this century, the classic factory system of the industrial revolution evolved rapidly into a new, identifiable form that would characterize American and world industry for most of the twentieth century. This transformation, as important for industrial managers, workers, and consumers as the initial creation of the factory, is the subject of Daniel Nelson's illuminating synthesis, updated and expanded to include the scholarship of the last twenty years. This edition of Managers and Workers describes the interrelations between technological and organizational innovation, including such familiar developments as the spread of mass production and the emergence of scientific management, and other developments that were little known when the first edition of this book appeared, such as the revolution in factory architecture, the changing role of the foreman, and the spread of personnel work. The volume also incorporates the best scholarship of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, some of it stimulated by Managers and Workers, and includes a new chapter on the role of organized labor in the early-twentieth-century factory. The focus of the work, however, remains the individual managers and workers who created the twentieth-century factory system.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-236) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-585-14763-9

0-299-14883-1

OCLC:

44962108

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08761 hdl