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International Studies in Social History



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Supervision and Authority in Industry

Western European Experiences, 1830-1939

Edited by Patricia Van den Eeckhout

244 pages, 25 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-600-9 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (August 2009)

eISBN 978-1-84545-942-0 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781845456009


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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, labour relations and management. Illustrating the multiple faces of the foreman, the contributors examine the artisanal sector, textiles, mining, printing, engineering, heavy manufacturing and car industries in Western Europe and show that the foreman was a multifaceted character who possessed technical expertise in addition to educational and organizational qualities. This comprehensive volume is further enhanced by comparisons with practices of supervision in Russia, Japan, China and India.

Patricia Van den Eeckhout is Professor of History and Discourse Analysis at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussel. She has published on the historiography of social history and the history of social housing policy, working-class family income, consumption, advertising, leisure, social statistics and labor relations.

Subject: History (General)History: 18th/19th CenturyHistory: 20th Century to Present
Area: North AmericaEurope


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