'Failure of a Quaker business dynasty. The Peases of Darlington, 1830-1902' in D Jeremy (ed), Business and Religion in Britain
Details:
- Author(s) Kirby, Maurice W
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1988
- Pages pp142-63
- Publisher Gower Press
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Faith & ethnicity
- Name Worker / employee management inc control
- Name Social responsibility, social control & philanthropy
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
'The purpose of this chapter ... is to offer a modest redress to the imbalance [re paucity of studies of Quaker influenced business] by examining, in the broad context of politics, market forces and personality, the religious influences which helped to determine the fate of one of Britain's most remarkable business dynasties'. Sections include: 'Origins of the Pease dynasty'; 'The Peases as philanthropists'; 'The Peases as paternalist employers'; 'Attitudes to trade unionism'; 'Collapse of the Pease dynasty'; 'End of Peasocracy'. Has family tree