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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 2 graphs, 15 halftones, 3 drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501717482
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.973
LOC classification:
  • HD7654.T66 1997
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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