Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) |
Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Labour Economics Ser. ; v. 13 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Labour Economics Ser
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Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; work; The Pottery Industry; Chapter 1 The Pottery Industry; Historical Development of the Industry; Industrial Structure 1890-1930; Product Markets and Industrial Performance; Foreign Industry; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Work and Home; The Production Process and the Division of Labour; Workshop Custom and Practice; Wages; The Social Relations of the Workplace; Family, Home and Work; Conclusion |
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Chapter 3 Trade Unionism in the Pottery IndustryFrom Craft to Amalgamated Union; Union Structure and Organisation; Membership; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Potters, Masters and Union; The Pottery Firm; Management; Industrial Relations; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Community, Movement and State; The Potters and the Community; The Potters, the Labour Movement and the State; Conclusion; Conclusion; The Anglo-American Context: from Trentham to Trenton; Continuity and Change: Pottery Work in the Twentieth Century; Patterns of Labour; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
First published in 1990. Patterns of Labour explores the interaction between home, paid work, and the individual. It looks at how the social relations of work both shape and are shaped by the context in which they occur. In a detailed examination of the pottery industries of Britain and America over two centuries, Richard Whipp looks at the far-reaching effects of key issues, such as industrialisation and economic transformation. However, he also examines changing notions of gender, the family, community and unionisation. The book centres on the difficulties of organising, controlling and describing work - not least because of the human act of its making |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Potters -- Great Britain -- History
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Potters -- United States -- History
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Potters -- Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Employment.
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Homeworking.
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Labor Economics.
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Labor Policy.
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Potters.
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Potters
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Potters -- Labor unions
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Great Britain
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780429676703 |
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0429676700 |
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