Title page-Supervision and Authority in Industry; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-Foremen in American and Western European Industry Before the First World War; Chapter 2-Work Organization and Supervision in the Textile Industry; Chapter 3-Salaried Authority; Chapter 4-Secrets, Lies and Contracts; Chapter 5-'To Organise Liberty'; Chapter 6-Wage Forms and Hierarchy in Late Nineteenth-Century French Industry; Chapter 7-Leading Hands at Work; Chapter 8-'Stealing The Souls Of Men'; Chapter 9-Porions and Conducteurs; Postscript; Contributors; Index
Summary
The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of the neglected aspects in the history of labour relations. After an insightful introductory chapter discussing the different forms of supervision in the United States, Britain, France and Germany before the First World War, the case studies in this volume focus on foremen: vital, but largely unstudied figures in the history of factory life, labou
