Author: Thomas Lowell NortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Trade-Union Policies in the Massachusetts shoe industry 1919 - 1929
Author: Thomas Lowell NortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Trade-union Policies in the Massachusetts Shoe Industry, 1919-1929
Author: Thomas Lowell NortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Footwear industry
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Report No. G- ...
Author: Out of Work
Author: Alexander KeyssarPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521297677
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Out of Work chronicles the history of unemployment in the United States. It traces the evolution of the problem of joblessness from the early decades of the nineteenth-century to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Challenging the widely held notion that the United States was a labour-scarce society in which jobs were plentiful, it argues that unemployment played a major role in American history long before the crash of the stock market in 1929. Focusing on the state of Massachusetts, Professor Kevssar analyses the economic and social changes that gave birth to the prevalent concept of unemployment. Drawing on previously untapped sources - including richly detailed statistics and vivid verbatim testimony - he demonstrates that joblessness was a pervasive feature of working-class life from the 1870s to the 1920s. The book describes the ingenious, yet quite costly, strategies that unemployed workers devised to cope with the joblessness in the absence of formal governmental assistance. It also explores the many dimensions of working-class life that were profoundly affected by recurrent layoffs and the chronic uncertainty of work. Finally, it demonstrates that the fundamental contours of the Massachusetts experience were repeated, sooner or later, throughout the United States.
Union Policies in the Leather Industry
Author: Leo Cyril BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Managers and Workers
Author: Daniel NelsonPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299148831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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 recent decades. 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. The preeminent historian of the American business firm, Alfred D. Chandler Jr. reviewed the first edition of Managers and Workers in The Journal of Economic History, predicting that this book would “long remain the standard work on the origins of the American factory.” The second edition will make that prediction true for the 1990s and beyond.
The Arbitration of Wages
Author: Irving BernsteinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Industrial Change and Employment Opportunity
Author: National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Historical Journal of Massachusetts
Author: Monthly Labor Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.