Fr. 136.00

British Labour Management & Industrial Welfare - 1846-1939

English · Hardback

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Originally published in 1988, this book examines company provision of welfare in the century preceding the Second World War, a period of enormous change in the structure and organisation of British industry and management.


List of contents

1.Industrial Relations, The Company and Welfare 2. The Railway, Monopoly and Labour Management 3. Labour in the Metropolitan Gas Industry 4. The Development of Company-Based Labour Policies in the Iron and Steel Industry 5. Systematic Management and Welfare in the Chemicals Industry 6. The Labour Question in the Breweries 7. The Place of industrial Welfare in British Industry 8. The Labour Co-partnership Association and the Industrial Welfare Society 9. Industry and Social Reform. Epilogue.

About the author

Robert Fitzgerald is Professor of Business History and International Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has researched and written on the historical, international and comparative analysis of business; labour history and management; marketing; multinational enterprise; and the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and British economies. He is the author of The Rise of the Global Company: Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World, and he is currently researching the historical role of labour management in the formation of business organization, and Japanese small business.

Summary

Originally published in 1988, this book examines company provision of welfare in the century preceding the Second World War, a period of enormous change in the structure and organisation of British industry and management.

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