Profits, Paternalism, and Rebellion
A Case Study in Industrial Strife
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9626129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian C Skaggs (Widener University, corresponding author), Richard L Ehrlich (Plimoth Plantation) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-174 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3114478 |
| OpenAlex | W2335638780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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
Action (physics · Big business · Economics · Falling (accident · Opposition (politics · Paternalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · American History and Culture · Law · Management Theory and Practice
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 1981 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |