Power, Profits, and Patriarchy

William G. Staples is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. Clifford L. Staples is professor of sociology at the University of North Dakota.

• 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.