Modern Manors
Title | Modern Manors PDF eBook |
Author | Sanford M. Jacoby |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1998-12-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1400822394 |
In light of recent trends of corporate downsizing and debates over corporate responsibility, Sanford Jacoby offers a timely, comprehensive history of twentieth-century welfare capitalism, that is, the history of nonunion corporations that looked after the economic security of employees. Building on three fascinating case studies of "modern manors" (Eastman Kodak, Sears, and TRW), Jacoby argues that welfare capitalism did not expire during the Depression, as traditionally thought. Rather it adapted to the challenges of the 1930s and became a powerful, though overlooked, factor in the history of the welfare state, the labor movement, and the corporation. "Fringe" benefits, new forms of employee participation, and sophisticated anti-union policies are just some of the outgrowths of welfare capitalism that provided a model for contemporary employers seeking to create productive nonunion workplaces. Although employer paternalism has faltered in recent years, many Americans still look to corporations, rather than to unions or government, to meet their needs. Jacoby explains why there remains widespread support for the notion that corporations should be the keystone of economic security in American society and offers a perspective on recent business trends. Based on extensive research, Modern Manors greatly advances the study of corporate and union power in the twentieth century.
Modern Manors
Title | Modern Manors PDF eBook |
Author | Sanford M Jacoby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781400816606 |
In light of recent trends toward corporate downsizing and debates over corporate responsibility, historian Sanford Jacoby offers a timely, comprehensive history of 20th-century welfare capitalism, that is, the history of nonunion corporations that look after the economic security of employees. Based on extensive research, MODERN MANORS greatly advances the study of corporate and union power in the 20th century.
A Topographical History of Surrey: by E. W. Brayley ... assisted by John Britton ... and E. W. Brayley, jun. ... The geological section by Gideon Mantell. (The illustrative department under the superintendence of Thomas Allom.) [With plates.]
Title | A Topographical History of Surrey: by E. W. Brayley ... assisted by John Britton ... and E. W. Brayley, jun. ... The geological section by Gideon Mantell. (The illustrative department under the superintendence of Thomas Allom.) [With plates.] PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Wedlake Brayley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | Surrey (England) |
ISBN |
A Short History of the Parish of Salehurst (Sussex).
Title | A Short History of the Parish of Salehurst (Sussex). PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard James Hodson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Salehurst (England) |
ISBN |
A Key to Domesday
Title | A Key to Domesday PDF eBook |
Author | Robert William Eyton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Domesday book |
ISBN |
The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Note-book
Title | The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Note-book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Cornwall (England : County) |
ISBN |
Geography and National Identity
Title | Geography and National Identity PDF eBook |
Author | David Hooson |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 1994-10-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 063118936X |
This volume of especially commissioned essays explores the geography of, and the role of geography in, national and proto-national identity. Place and national identity are bound together. Attachment to the one is almost always inseparable from the sense of the other. Yet, as this volume shows, the articulated self-conscious linking of place and identity is by and large a modern phenomenon that took root in nineteenth-century Europe. The formation of supranational states and the much vaunted globalization of culture led many to believe there would be a progressive dilution of national identities and a growing agglomeration of places and nations into larger state units. Precisely the reverse has taken place. This book explores the connections between identity and homeland, showing how a place may be perceived as archetypal, endowed with love and celebrated in music and poetry, yet be a pretext for violence and war. It examines the evolution of ideas about identity and their manifestations in a wide variety of settings, from the former Soviet Union to the island states of the South Pacific.