The East India Company's London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858

by Margaret Makepeace

An assessment of how the East India Company managed the labourers in its London warehouses, which was one of the largest commercial workforces in its day.

The East India Company, which was by 1800 a commercial organisation of unrivalled size and complexity managing a vast empire in Asia, also played a crucial role in the British economy, particularly in London, where the Company wasthe largest employer of civilian labour in the early nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843835851
• ISBN13: 9781843835851
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"