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A Mid-Victorian Employer on Factory Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

G. A. Petch
G. A. Petch
Affiliation:
King's College in The University of Durham
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Extract

In the economic affairs of Britain the mid-nineteenth ccntury was the age of the relatively small and independent employer, conscious of a long-established prowess which had been surpassed nowhere in the world and in the conduct of the affairs of his works but little affected by the embryonic factory legislation and the feeble trade unionism of the time. Equally the large combine with its tendency towards standardization of conditions had still to come. Lord of all he surveyed, the employer's views on conditions of work are a good index of what actually was.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1951 , pp. 257 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1951

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References

1 November 1, 1859, p. 235. This periodical itself is an example of good intentions. Written by members of the employing class, it was to a large extent given away by them to their employees. W. & R. Chambers, Limited, a descendant of the printers of this periodical, is still (1951) in the publishing business in Edinburgh. It publishes the Chambers's Journal, one of several periodicals issued by the firm a hundred or more years ago. (See Hammond, J. L. and Barbara, The Age of the Chartists, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930, p. 314.Google Scholar)

2 “Footings”: Drinks provided by new apprentices to establish their footing in the works and described by The British Workman and Friend of the Sons of Toil as being a heavy burden on the parents of the apprentice.