Sweated Industries and Sweated Labor. The London clothing trades, 1860-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Schmiechen, James A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1984
- Pages 209pp; illus
- Publisher Croom Helm
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
See also the writer's 'Sweated Industries and Sweated Labour. A study of industrial disorganisation and worker attitudes in the London clothing trades, 1867-1909', PhD, Illinois, 1975, here much revised. Includes much about the London clothing industry and its structure. Parts 1-3 focus on the causes of the sweating system. Parts 4-6 deal with the role of trade unions and the state in ending sweating. Distinguishes between 'sweating' and 'putting out'