The Business of Benevolence : : Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America / / 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 design...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 graphs, 15 halftones, 3 drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- 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