Evidence of the Existence of an Internal Labour Market in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1875–1905
| Autor: | Peter Howlett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
H Social Sciences (General)
History Pension Labour economics business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Wage Payment system Payment Market economy Promotion (rank) Seniority (financial) Spatial mobility Economics Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Business and International Management business Welfare media_common |
| Zdroj: | Business History. 42:21-40 |
| ISSN: | 1743-7938 0007-6791 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00076790000000173 |
| Popis: | Evidence from promotion ladders and the wage payment system of the GER is evaluated to see if it supports existing claims, primarily based on welfare and pension provision, that by 1900 the railway companies had become the first important adherents in the country to a system of internal labour markets. It is suggested that promotion was internalised and that it was based on merit and seniority, that some form of seniority wage payments system did evolve, and that wage increases were sharpest in the first ten years of employment and were associated with spatial mobility |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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