A Business and Labour History of Britain

1. Introduction: Themes and Historical Backdrop
Mike Richardson, Peter Nicholls

2. Labour, Management and Control: The Early Railway Industry in Britain
Peter Nicholls

3. Women, Mechanization and Cost Savings in Twentieth Century British Banks and Other Financial Institutions
Peter Wardley

4. Bliss Tweed Mill Strike 1913–14: Causes, Conduct and Consequences
Mike Richardson

5. Rapprochement and Retribution: The Divergent Experiences of Workers in Two Large Paper and Print Companies in the 1926 General Strike
Mike Richardson

6. Work Relations: Compositors’ Experiences in a Family-Owned Printing Company, J. W. Arrowsmith 1918–39
Mike Richardson

7. Organization, Ideology and Control — Founding Principles: The Case of the BBC
Peter Nicholls

8. Taylorism in the Mines? Technology, Work Organization and Management in British Coalmining before Nationalization
Stephanie Tailby

9. Shop-Floor Bargaining and the Struggle for Job Control in the British Automobile and Aerospace Industries, 1950–82
Mike Richardson, Paul Stewart, Andy Danford

Keywords: Social Sciences, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Management, Organization, Economic History, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, History of Britain and Ireland