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A business and labour history of Britain Case studies of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /

By bringing together and critically engaging with accounts of certain themes in business and labour history, and utilizing original research, this book aims to widen understanding of industrial society and provide a background to further study and research in the area management and labour relations...

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Group Author: Richardson, Mike.; Nicholls, Peter.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Industrial relations > Great Britain > Case studies.
Industrial management > History > 20th century > Great Britain.
Industrial management > History > 19th century > Great Britain.
Business enterprises > History > 20th century > Great Britain.
Business enterprises > History > 19th century > Great Britain.
Labour economics > 20th century > 20th century > United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Organizational theory & behaviour > 20th century > 20th century > United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Economics.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337008
Summary: By bringing together and critically engaging with accounts of certain themes in business and labour history, and utilizing original research, this book aims to widen understanding of industrial society and provide a background to further study and research in the area management and labour relations history.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230280922, 2011.
Carrier Form: 224 p. : 1 figures, 6 5.
ISBN: 9780230280922
9780230337008 :
0230337007 :
CLC: F456.15
Contents: Introduction: Themes and Historical Backdrop-- M.Richardson & P.Nicholls Labour, Management and Control: the Early Railway Industry in Britain-- P.Nicholls Women, Mechanization and Cost-Savings in Twentieth-Century British Banks and other Financial Institutions-- P.Wardley Bliss Tweed Mill Strike 1913--14: Causes, Conduct and Consequences-- M.Richardson Rapprochement and Retribution: the Divergent Experiences of Workers in Two Large Paper and Print Companies in the 1926 General Strike-- M.Richardson Work Relations: Compositors' Experiences in a Family-Owned Printing Company, J.W. Arrowsmith 1918-1939-- M.Richardson Organisation, Ideology and Control: Founding Principles: the Case of the BBC-- P.Nicholls Taylorism in the Mines? Technology, Work Organization and Management in British Coal-mining before Nationalization-- S.Tailby Shop-floor Bargaining and the Struggle for Job Control in the British Automobile and Aerospace Industries 1950--1982-- M.Richardson, P.Stewart & A.Danford.

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