The Business of Benevolence

by Andrea Tone

Book Overview

In the early twentieth century, an era characterized by unprecedented industrial strife and violence, thousands of employers across the United States pioneered a new policy of labor relations called welfare work. The results of the policy were paternalistic practices and forms of compensation designed not only to control workers, but also to advertise the humanity of corporate capitalism to thwart the advance of legislated reform. In a burgeoning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801430283
• ISBN13: 9780801430282
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher