The History of Labour Intermediation : : Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / / ed. by Sigrid Wadauer, Alexander Mejstrik, Thomas Buchner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Buchner, Thomas,; Edling, Nils,; Knotter, Ad,; Lourens, Piet,; Lucassen, Jan,; Mansfield, Malcolm,; Mejstrik, Alexander,; Meskill, David,; Mishra, Amit Kumar,; O’Donnell, Anthony,; Pawlowsky, Verena,; Richter, Jessica,; Vana, Irina,; Wadauer, Sigrid,; Wendelin, Harald,; Whiteside, Noel,
• HerausgeberIn: Buchner, Thomas,; Mejstrik, Alexander,; Wadauer, Sigrid,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: Finding Work and Organizing Placement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries --; 1 Organizing the Market? Labour Offices and Labour Markets in Germany, 1890–1933 --; 2 Between Labour Market Constituencies: The Struggles to Establish Vocational Counselling in Weimar Germany --; 3 Organizing Labour Markets: The British Experience --; 4 Creating a National Labour Market: Public Labour Exchanges in Sweden, 1890–1920 --; 5 From Placement Control to Control of the Unemployed: Trade Unions and Labour Market Intermediation in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries --; 6 Labour Intermediation, Uncertain Employment and the bourses du travail in Late Nineteenth-Century France --; 7 Transforming Soldiers into Workers: The Austrian Employment Agency for Disabled Veterans during the First World War --; 8 The Use of Public Labour Offices by Job Seekers in Interwar Austria --; 9 A Vocation in the Family Household? Household Integration, Professionalization and Changes of Position in Domestic Service (Austria, 1918–1938) --; 10 Tramping in Search of Work: Practices of Wayfarers and of Authorities (Austria, 1880–1938) --; 11 Labour Mediation among Seasonal Workers, Particularly the Lippe Brickmakers, 1650–1900 --; 12 Sardars, Kanganies and Maistries: Intermediaries in the Indian Labour Diaspora during the Colonial Period --; 13 ‘Organizing the Labour Market’ in a Liberal Welfare State: The Origins of the Public Employment Service in Australia --; Concluding Remarks --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782385516; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782385516?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sigrid Wadauer, Alexander Mejstrik, Thomas Buchner.

Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors explore how looking for work becomes a means by which participants (individuals, placement agents, trade unions, municipalities, administrations, state authorities, and schools) articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. Taking an exploratory approach, the chapters illustrate different approaches to the history of employment and job searching, ranging from organizational and regulatory histories to the analysis of practices and autobiographical accounts. In the process, they uncover the interrelations of search practices and attempts to arrange placement services.