Title A business and labour history of Britain : case studies of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Mike Richardson and Peter Nicholls

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary The authors bring together historical case-study evidence from the public and private sectors to provide valuable insights in the field of work organization, the social relations of production and the detailed division of labour in some key British industries and workplaces between the 1830s and the 1990s. These studies reveal the constant ebb and flow of power and influence between capital and labour and the initiatives both sides took to defend their interests. Over this extended span of history such cases identify a series of constants that have come to reflect the unique qualities of the relationship between British capital and labour and the sectors and industries that have given this country such a distinctive and, as some might argue, skewed economic structure. Notwithstanding the diversity of these cases, extending over time, and place, the common thread which connects them is that they examine changes in aspects of the labour process, such as scientific management, mechanization, deskilling, micro-technology, gender division of labour, work organization and labour relations, in differing industries Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Industrial relations -- Great Britain -- Case studies Industrial management -- Great Britain Business enterprises -- Great Britain Labour economics -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. -- 20th century. Organizational theory & behaviour -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. -- 20th century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Business enterprises Industrial management Industrial relations Labour economics -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Organizational theory & behaviour -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Economics. Great Britain Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Richardson, Mike, 1947- Nicholls, Peter, 1951- ISBN 9780230337008 0230337007 0230280927 9780230280922

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