Managers and workers : origins of the twentieth-century factory system in the United States, 1880-1920

Nelson, Daniel 1941- (Author).

Summary: During the early years of this century, the classic factory system of the industrial revolution evolved rapidly into a new, identifiable form that would characterize American and world industry for most of the twentieth century. This transformation, as important for industrial managers, workers, and consumers as the initial creation of the factory, is the subject of Daniel Nelson's illuminating synthesis, updated and expanded to include the scholarship of the last twenty years. This edition of Managers and Workers describes the interrelations between technological and organizational innovation, including such familiar developments as the spread of mass production and the emergence of scientific management, and other developments that were little known when the first edition of this book appeared, such as the revolution in factory architecture, the changing role of the foreman, and the spread of personnel work. The volume also incorporates the best scholarship of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, some of it stimulated by Managers and Workers, and includes a new chapter on the role of organized labor in the early-twentieth-century factory. The focus of the work, however, remains the individual managers and workers who created the twentieth-century factory system.

Record details

ISBN: 9780299148843
ISBN: 9780299148805
ISBN: 029914884X
ISBN: 0299148807
ISBN: 0299148831
ISBN: 9780299148836
ISBN: 9780585147635
ISBN: 0585147639
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages)
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Edition: 2nd edition.
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-236) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The Setting -- The Factory Environment -- The Foreman's Empire -- The Rise of Scientific Management -- Recruting the Factory Labor Force -- The Rise of Welfare Work -- The New Factory System and the Worker -- The Impact of Progressive Government -- World War I.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.