Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries, 1850-1939
Details:
- Author(s) Jowitt, J A, & Arthur J McIvor (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 239pp
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Business interest representation & co-operation
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Origins are in a 1984 conference. Examines aspects of labour and industrial relations in the textile sector in northern England before 1939, with contributions on wool, worsted, silk,and cotton spinning, weaving and finishing. 'Our main aim has been to supplement existing literature by ... [incorporating] some of the recent research on women and employers in the industry.' Arranged in three sections, viz: 1] 'Employers and employers' organisations'; 'Trade unions and labour'; 'Women in textiles'. For relevant essays see individual BHE entries