Labour and Housing at Port Sunlight
Details:
- Author(s) George, W L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1909
- Pages 218pp; illus
- Publisher Alston Rivers
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Oral history
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An account which draws on c90 'interviews' with 'working men and women', 'clerks', 'foremen and officials' and 'employees of institutions and others'. Covers both the factory and, especially, the village. Has many illustrations especially of houses and the village generally. Chapters deal with health and safety at the factory; employee welfare - suggestion box, hours and wages, 'what is done for the girls', catering, holiday club, pension fund, 'attitude of the workers'. Others deal with the village - 'topography and architecture', 'economic conditions', public and private institutions. Another covers education and the 'Port Sunlight spirit'. In a final chapter - 'Profit and loss' - explores the associated costs, revenues, indirect benefits to the business of the various schemes referred to in the book. Includes a coloured plan of the village. An approving account