Profits, Paternalism, and Rebellion: A Case Study in Industrial Strife

Autor:	Richard L. Ehrlich, Julian C. Skaggs
Rok vydání:	1980
Předmět:	History Opposition (politics) Business failure Heavy industry Paternalism Scholarship Falling (accident) Action (philosophy) Political economy Law medicine Economics Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Production (economics) Business and International Management medicine.symptom
Zdroj:	Business History Review. 54:155-174
ISSN:	2044-768X 0007-6805
DOI:	10.2307/3114478
Popis:	As production workers in late-nineteenth-century American heavy industry moved towards regular use of concerted action, including the strike, to gain their demands, employers generally adopted rigid policies of opposition. That it was a frightening period for manufacturers, with prices for their goods steadily falling and widespread business failure, has been emphasized by Edward C. Kirkland and others. But lack of scholarship in business archives has improverished labor-management history on this point. Professors Skaggs and Ehrlich offer one case history, based on a study of the “inner truth” of such a conflict in the 1880s. It confirms the suspicion that it was not practical economic imperatives but a long-run policy to maintain the principles of paternalism that often accounted for the intransigence of management.
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