The Business of Benevolence : : Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America / / Andrea Tone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tone, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 graphs, 15 halftones, 3 drawings
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. The Politics of Labor Reform --; 2. Welfare Work and Industrial Efficiency --; 3. The ''Human Face" of American Capitalism --; 4. Gender and Welfare Work --; 5. Organized Labor Responds --; 6. The Rank and File --; 7. Benefits for Breadwinners --; Epilogue --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501717482; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501717482
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrea Tone.

In the early twentieth century, an era characterized by unprecedented industrial strife and violence, thousands of employers across the United States pioneered a new policy of labor relations called welfare work. The results of the policy were paternalistic practices and forms of compensation designed not only to control workers, but also to advertise the humanity of corporate capitalism to thwart the advance of legislated reform. In a burgeoning literature on the development of the U.S. welfare state, Andrea Tone offers a new interpretation of the importance of welfare capitalism in shaping its development.