Author: Susan D. BachrachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Feminization of the French Postal Service, 1750-1914
Author: Susan D. BachrachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Feminization of the French Postal Service, 1750-1914
Author: Susan Dimlich BachrachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914
Author: Lenard BerlansteinPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421430789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Originally published in 1984. In The Working People of Paris, 1871–1914, Lenard Berlanstein examines how technological advances, expanding industrialization, bureaucratization, and urban growth affected the lives of the working poor and near poor of one of the world's most influential cities during an era of intense social and cultural change. Berlanstein departs from other historians of the working classes in treating, in a parallel manner, not only craftsmen and factory laborers but also service workers and lower-level white-collar employees. Avoiding the fallacy of letting the city limits set the boundaries of an urban study, he deals also with the industrial suburbs, with their considerable concentration of workers, to examine the transformation of the work, leisure, and consumer experiences of the people who did not own property and who lived from one payday to the next during the Second Industrial Revolution. The Working People of Paris describes a cycle of adaptation and resistance to the forces of economic maturation. For several decades after 1871, Berlanstein argues, working people and employees preserved accommodations with management about reciprocal rights in the workplace. By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, these forms of adaptation had broken down under new economic pressures. The result was a crisis of discipline in the workplace, as wage earners and modest clerks began to challenge managerial authority. Berlanstein's study confronts the widely accepted view that, during this period, workers became better integrated into a society of improving standards of living and mass leisure. Instead, he documents uneven patterns of material progress and growing conflict over work roles among all sorts of laboring people.
Phossy Jaw and the French Match Workers
Author: Bonnie GordonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351986252
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety conditions of their work, the match workers succeeded. At a time when most French women were not unionised and did not pursue effective action on occupational health problems, French women in the match industry succeeded. This book, first published in 1989, examines their actions and provides the definitive account of their success.
Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Lenard R. BerlansteinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520351061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s and became the city's single largest employer of clerical and factory labor. Representing a new form and scale of capitalistic endeavor, the firm's history illuminates the social tensions that accompanied the nation's industrialization and democratization. To study the company over its fifty-year life is to see industrializing France writ small. Using previously untapped company archives, Lenard R. Berlanstein has written a rich and detailed study that skillfully bridges the divide between business, social, and labor history.
Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business
Author: VariousPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351983954
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 3998
Book Description
This 15-volume set of previously out-of-print tiles examines many aspects of women and business. Encompassing such as areas as women’s access to managerial positions, positions within trade unions, inequality, family life, role in family businesses and entrepreneurship, it is a remarkable collection and a vital business reference source.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Historical Abstracts
Author: New Books on Women and Feminism
Author: American Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description