Power, Profits, and Patriarchy

The Social Organization of Work at a British Metal Trades Firm, 1791-1922

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

AvWilliam G. Staples,Clifford L. Staples

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Founded in 1791 and in existence for more than two hundred years, the Kenrick iron foundry of West Bromwich, England produced some of the finest cast-iron hardware ever made. William and Clifford Staples' goal in studying the Kenrick case is to examine how taken-for-granted assumptions about class, gender, and familial relations contributed to the longevity of the firm. The authors' investigation uncovers three distinct political regimes of production that they characterize as successive forms of capitalist patriarchy. Indeed, it is contended that the Kenricks were able to maintain their power and their profits, to a great extent, because they were able to use patriarchy to solve pressing organizational problems. By balancing a concern with both the materiality of production and its ideological, cultural, and political moments, this book offers new insights into the nature of production politics, patriarchy, and the historical sociology of capitalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-08-07
Mått152 x 224 x 13 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742516403

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Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 List of AbbreviationsChapter 3 1 IntroductionChapter 4 2 "Masters and Servants" The Foundations of Patriarchy, 1791-1867Chapter 5 3 With "Liberality and Kindness": The Genesis of Paternalism, 1868-1891Chapter 6 4 "You Are Not Paid to Think": The Collapse of Paternalism, 1868-1891Chapter 7 5 "A Personal Interest in the Prosperity of Their Employers": Bureaucratic Hegemony and the Origins of Social Patriarchy, 1914-1922Chapter 8 6 EpilogueChapter 9 NotesChapter 10 Appendix A: Children's Employment Commission (1862)Chapter 11 Appendix B: Factory and Workshops Acts CommissionPart 12 Select BibliographyPart 13 IndexPart 14 About the Authors

Power, Profits, and Patriarchy is an outstanding addition to the literature of labor history, industrial sociology, and gender studies. Within the context of a brisk and specific narrative, it deepens understanding of the actual processes by which industrial capitalism began, flourished, and eventually became transmogrified. Resting on exhaustive historical research and thorough engagement with the relevant historical and sociological literature, Power, Profits and Patriarchy provides unique and arresting perspectives on both the historical development of and contemporary crisis in industrial capitalism.