Supervision and authority in industry : Western European experiences, 1830-1939 /: Western European experiences, 1830-1939. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Patricia Van den Eeckhout.
• Editors: Eeckhout, Patricia vanden, 1953-
• Contents: Foremen in American and Western European industry before the First World War / Patricia Van den Eeckhout -- Work organization and supervision in the textile industry : the case of la España Industrial, Barcelona (1849-1888) / Cristina Borderías -- Salaried authority : the versatile fate of contremaîtres in the Ghent cotton industry (1830-1914) / Peter Scholliers -- Secrets, lies, and contracts : conflicts between employers and their foremen in nineteenth-century Ghent (1885-1913) / Patricia Van den Eeckhout -- 'To organise liberty' : foremen and the effort bargain during British industrialization / James A. Jaffe -- Wage forms and hierarchy in late nineteenth-century French industry / Jérôme Bourdieu and Gilles Postel-Vinay -- Leading hands at work : technology, work organization and supervision in the British engineering industry, 1870-1914 / Joseph Melling -- 'Stealing the souls of men' : employers, supervisors, and work organization (ca. 1890-1939) / Richard Coopey and Alan McKinlay -- Porions and conducteurs : supervisory functions in the Belgian limburg coal-mining industry (1917-1939) / Bart Delbroek.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 331.25; Labor supply -- Europe -- History -- Case studies; Supervision of employees -- Europe -- History -- Case studies; Industrial management -- History -- Case studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; HISTORY -- General; Industrial management; Labor supply; Supervision of employees; Europe; Electronic books; Case studies; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459420; 1845459423
• Related ISBNs: 9781845456009; 1845456009
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.