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Author Mandell, Nikki.

Title The corporation as family : the gendering of corporate welfare, 1890-1930 / Nikki, Mandell
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations
Series Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state
Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state.
Contents Redefining the Labor Problem -- Like a Family -- Raising the Children -- Welfare Workers: Mothers and Managers -- The Corporate Family in Conflict: Welfare Workers and Employers -- The Corporate Family in Conflict: Welfare Workers and Employees -- From the Family Ideal to the Personnel Manager -- Conclusion
Summary Nikki Mandell explores the growth of corporate welfare programmes around the turn of the 20th century. She argues that businessmen hoped such programmes would transform conflict-ridden relations between management and labour into a harmonious partnership modelled after the Victorian family
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Industrial welfare -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Industrial welfare
Sociaal bedrijfsbeleid.
Betriebliche Sozialpolitik
Verenigde Staten.
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001043101
ISBN 0807860395
9780807860397
0807826855
9780807826850
0807853518
9780807853511