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Author: James W. Stitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.458kg
ISBN: 9780313324611
ISBN 10: 0313324611
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 01 March 2006
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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British Prime Minister Lloyd George introduced the Joint Industrial Council initiative in 1917 in response to worries over work stoppages in heavily organized industries vital to the prosecution of the war. The Joint Industrial Councils sought to bring greater productivity to industry by promoting cooperation between representatives of business and labor. In this organizational history, Stitt describes the political inception of the Joint Industrial Councils and describes how they were instituted and how they operated and developed up until the outbreak of World War I. He describes how, ironically, they came to be used much more in the lightly organized industries than in the heavily organized industries for which they were first targeted. He also analyzes the purposes for which the councils came to be used: opposition to governmental regulation, protection of industries under stress, and orderly adjustment of wages. - Reference & Research Book News
?British Prime Minister Lloyd George introduced the Joint Industrial Council initiative in 1917 in response to worries over work stoppages in heavily organized industries vital to the prosecution of the war. The Joint Industrial Councils sought to bring greater productivity to industry by promoting cooperation between representatives of business and labor. In this organizational history, Stitt describes the political inception of the Joint Industrial Councils and describes how they were instituted and how they operated and developed up until the outbreak of World War I. He describes how, ironically, they came to be used much more in the lightly organized industries than in the heavily organized industries for which they were first targeted. He also analyzes the purposes for which the councils came to be used: opposition to governmental regulation, protection of industries under stress, and orderly adjustment of wages.?-Reference & Research Book News
Author Information
James W. Stitt is Professor of History at High Point University in North Carolina. He also currently serves as Chair of the History and Political Science Department and as Faculty Marshal. His research interests concern industrial productivity and efficiency in Britain between WWI and WWII, with a focus on labor and management cooperation for common purposes and the related political and social issues associated with business change.
