Supervision and authority in industry [[electronic resource] ] : Western European experiences, 1830-1939 / / edited by Patricia Van den Eeckhout

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.25
• Soggetto topico: Labor supply - Europe - History; Supervision of employees - Europe - History; Industrial management - History
• Altri autori: EeckhoutPatricia vanden <1953->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 España Industrial, Barcelona (1849-1888) / Cristina Borderías -- Salaried authority : the versatile fate of contremaîtres 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 / Jérôme 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Supervision and authority in industry
• ISBN: 1-282-62800-3; 9786612628009; 1-84545-942-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791241703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International studies in social history ; ; v. 15.