Servants of the Honourable Company. Work, discipline and conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879

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Author(s) Burley, Edith I
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1997
Pages 319pp; illus
Publisher Oxford University Press
Place Published Toronto ON

Topics:

Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
Name Worker / employee management inc control

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

Based on the writer's doctoral thesis 'Work, Discipline and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Co, 1770 to 1870', Manitoba, 1993. Deals the company's tradesmen and labourers from the perspective of both employees and company, notably 'how they 'defended their interests, negotiated terms of employment, tried to control working conditions, and acted together to increase wages or oppose unfair treatment'