| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and 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 paternalistic practices and forms of compensation they introduced were designed not only to control workers but also to advertise the humanity of corporate capitalism and thus to thwart the advance of legislated reform. In a penetrating contribution to a burgeoning literature on the development of the U.S. welfare state, Andrea Tone offers a new interpretation of the role of welfare capitalism in the shaping of that development. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Politics of Labor Reform -- Ch. 2. Welfare Work and Industrial Efficiency -- Ch. 3. "Human Face" of American Capitalism -- Ch. 4. Gender and Welfare Work -- Ch. 5. Organized Labor Responds -- Ch. 6. Rank and File -- Ch. 7. Benefits for Breadwinners. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Industrial welfare. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tone, Andrea, 1964- Business of benevolence. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1997 0801430283 (DLC) 97016814 (OCoLC)36806822 |
| ISBN |
9781501717482 (electronic book) |
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1501717480 (electronic book) |
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0801430283 |
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9780801430282 |
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