TY - BOOK AU - Buchner,Thomas AU - Edling,Nils AU - Knotter,Ad AU - Lourens,Piet AU - Lucassen,Jan AU - Mansfield,Malcolm AU - Mejstrik,Alexander AU - Meskill,David AU - Mishra,Amit Kumar AU - O’Donnell,Anthony AU - Pawlowsky,Verena AU - Richter,Jessica AU - Vana,Irina AU - Wadauer,Sigrid AU - Wendelin,Harald AU - Whiteside,Noel TI - The History of Labour Intermediation: Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries T2 - International Studies in Social History SN - 9781782385509 U1 - 331.12809034 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Employment agencies KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Labor KW - HISTORY / Social History KW - bisacsh KW - History: 18th/19th Century, History: 20th Century to Present, Sociology, Political and Economic Anthropology N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385516?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782385516 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782385516/original ER -