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-

Contributor:

Licht, Walter, 1946- donor.

Walter Licht Labor History Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Factory system--United States--History.

Factory system.

Personnel management--United States--History.

Personnel management.

Industrial sociology--United States--History.

Industrial sociology.

Personnel management--History.

Industrial sociology--history.

United States.

Management--United States--History.

Medical Subjects:

Industrial sociology--history.

United States.

Genre:

History

Penn Provenance:

Licht, Walter, 1946- (donor)

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1995.

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.

Contents:

The Setting

The Factory Environment

The Foreman's Empire

The Rise of Scientific Management

Recruting the Factory Labor Force

The Rise of Welfare Work

The New Factory System and the Worker

The Impact of Progressive Government

World War I.

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Nelson, Daniel, 1941- Managers and workers.

ISBN:

0299148807

9780299148805

029914884X

9780299148843

OCLC:

32088804

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