Author: Cecilia Danysk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Farm workers were central to the development of Canada's prairie West. From 1878, when the first shipment of prairie grain went to international markets, to 1929, when the Great Depression signalled the end of the wheat boom, the role of hired hands changed dramatically. Prior to World War One, hired hands viewed themselves and were treated in the rural community as equals to their farmer employers. Many were farmers in training, informal apprentices who worked for wages so they could accumulate the capital and experience needed to secure their own free 160-acre parcels of land. In later years, as free lands were taken, hired hands increasingly faced the hkehhood of remaining waged labourers on the farms of others. They became agricultural proletarians. In this first full-length study of labour in Canadian prairie agriculture during the period of settlement and expansion, Cecilia Danysk examines the changing work and the growing rural community of the West through the eyes of the workers themselves. World War One was a catalyst in bringing into focus the conflicting nature of labour-capital relations and the divergent aims of workers and their employers. Yet, attempts at union organization were unsuccessful because most hired hands worked alone and because governments assisted farmers by stifling such attempts. The workers' greatest form of workplace control was to walk off one job and find another. Previously published by McClelland & Stewart
Hired Hands
Author: Cecilia Danysk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Farm workers were central to the development of Canada's prairie West. From 1878, when the first shipment of prairie grain went to international markets, to 1929, when the Great Depression signalled the end of the wheat boom, the role of hired hands changed dramatically. Prior to World War One, hired hands viewed themselves and were treated in the rural community as equals to their farmer employers. Many were farmers in training, informal apprentices who worked for wages so they could accumulate the capital and experience needed to secure their own free 160-acre parcels of land. In later years, as free lands were taken, hired hands increasingly faced the hkehhood of remaining waged labourers on the farms of others. They became agricultural proletarians. In this first full-length study of labour in Canadian prairie agriculture during the period of settlement and expansion, Cecilia Danysk examines the changing work and the growing rural community of the West through the eyes of the workers themselves. World War One was a catalyst in bringing into focus the conflicting nature of labour-capital relations and the divergent aims of workers and their employers. Yet, attempts at union organization were unsuccessful because most hired hands worked alone and because governments assisted farmers by stifling such attempts. The workers' greatest form of workplace control was to walk off one job and find another. Previously published by McClelland & Stewart
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Farm workers were central to the development of Canada's prairie West. From 1878, when the first shipment of prairie grain went to international markets, to 1929, when the Great Depression signalled the end of the wheat boom, the role of hired hands changed dramatically. Prior to World War One, hired hands viewed themselves and were treated in the rural community as equals to their farmer employers. Many were farmers in training, informal apprentices who worked for wages so they could accumulate the capital and experience needed to secure their own free 160-acre parcels of land. In later years, as free lands were taken, hired hands increasingly faced the hkehhood of remaining waged labourers on the farms of others. They became agricultural proletarians. In this first full-length study of labour in Canadian prairie agriculture during the period of settlement and expansion, Cecilia Danysk examines the changing work and the growing rural community of the West through the eyes of the workers themselves. World War One was a catalyst in bringing into focus the conflicting nature of labour-capital relations and the divergent aims of workers and their employers. Yet, attempts at union organization were unsuccessful because most hired hands worked alone and because governments assisted farmers by stifling such attempts. The workers' greatest form of workplace control was to walk off one job and find another. Previously published by McClelland & Stewart
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
Author: Rakesh Khurana
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830869
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830869
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.
Hired Hands Or Human Resources?
Author: Bruce E. Kaufman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801448300
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Early human resource management : context and history -- HRM at the beginning : the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad -- Contrasting HRM strategies : Pullman and Baldwin -- HRM and alternative systems of workforce governance -- HRM in the industrial heartland I : the United States Steel Corporation -- HRM in the industrial heartland II : the Ford Motor Company -- Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc. -- The human resource model in a welfare capitalism firm : the Top-Grade Oil Company -- A high-road employer in a low-road industry : the Great Eastern Coal Company -- The middle ground of HRM in the 1920s : the United Steel and Coal Company -- Paternalism combined with decentralized and informal HRM : Mega-Watt Light and Power -- The "hired hand" model in a large manufacturing firm : New Era Radio -- HRM in the industrial heartland III : High-Beam Steel -- The case studies : insights and lessons learned.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801448300
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Early human resource management : context and history -- HRM at the beginning : the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad -- Contrasting HRM strategies : Pullman and Baldwin -- HRM and alternative systems of workforce governance -- HRM in the industrial heartland I : the United States Steel Corporation -- HRM in the industrial heartland II : the Ford Motor Company -- Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc. -- The human resource model in a welfare capitalism firm : the Top-Grade Oil Company -- A high-road employer in a low-road industry : the Great Eastern Coal Company -- The middle ground of HRM in the 1920s : the United Steel and Coal Company -- Paternalism combined with decentralized and informal HRM : Mega-Watt Light and Power -- The "hired hand" model in a large manufacturing firm : New Era Radio -- HRM in the industrial heartland III : High-Beam Steel -- The case studies : insights and lessons learned.
Country Music Humorists and Comedians
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252033698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252033698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.
Hired Hands
Author: Winston Gieseke (Ed.)
Publisher: Bruno Gmuender
ISBN: 9783867877879
Category : Gay erotic stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You're alone. You're horny. And he's right there - the handsome handyman, the gorgeous gardener, the sexy stud washing the windows - You shoot him a look that says it's OK to break from his duties - there's a more important service you need him to perform. After all, why take matters into your own hands when you've got a hunky hired hand? He may have his own tools, but since you're paying, you reason he should work your equipment instead. Especially since you've got a nice big tip waiting for him.
Publisher: Bruno Gmuender
ISBN: 9783867877879
Category : Gay erotic stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You're alone. You're horny. And he's right there - the handsome handyman, the gorgeous gardener, the sexy stud washing the windows - You shoot him a look that says it's OK to break from his duties - there's a more important service you need him to perform. After all, why take matters into your own hands when you've got a hunky hired hand? He may have his own tools, but since you're paying, you reason he should work your equipment instead. Especially since you've got a nice big tip waiting for him.
Hired Hands- Seasonal Farm Workers in the United States
Author: Stephen H. Sosnick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Farmers and Fishermen
Author: Daniel Vickers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119730X
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Produced by Copenhagen's Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, this volume, the first of an eleven-volume series, offers an insight into Kierkegaard's inner life. In addition to early drafts of his published works, it also contains his thoughts on events and philosophical and theological matters and ideas for future literary projects.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119730X
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Produced by Copenhagen's Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, this volume, the first of an eleven-volume series, offers an insight into Kierkegaard's inner life. In addition to early drafts of his published works, it also contains his thoughts on events and philosophical and theological matters and ideas for future literary projects.
The World's Work
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
A history of our time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
A history of our time.
Tiwidu: Village on the Verge
Author: William Tucker
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365288412
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The village of Tiwidu comes to life! With over a hundred unique locations and the NPCs to populate them, Tiwidu is the perfect setting for a new game just starting up, but it can also be easily integrated into any campaign. Tiwidu is an incredibly detailed town, with everything plotted out from the earl's long-term economic goals to the bookbinder's designs on his attractive neighbor and everything in between. The town is already chock full of people to meet and secrets to learn, but Tiwidu: Village On the Verge is also the jumping off point for the adventures "Strangers on the Trail," "Shadow Over Tiwidu," and "The Prodigal Sons*" so there is even more to do in this strange little market town. Any party can base themselves out of Tiwidu but the town is especially suited to 1st level characters just starting out.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365288412
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The village of Tiwidu comes to life! With over a hundred unique locations and the NPCs to populate them, Tiwidu is the perfect setting for a new game just starting up, but it can also be easily integrated into any campaign. Tiwidu is an incredibly detailed town, with everything plotted out from the earl's long-term economic goals to the bookbinder's designs on his attractive neighbor and everything in between. The town is already chock full of people to meet and secrets to learn, but Tiwidu: Village On the Verge is also the jumping off point for the adventures "Strangers on the Trail," "Shadow Over Tiwidu," and "The Prodigal Sons*" so there is even more to do in this strange little market town. Any party can base themselves out of Tiwidu but the town is especially suited to 1st level characters just starting out.