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.
A Business and Labour History of Britain: Case studies of Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Table of 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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