The History of Labour Intermediation: Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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Titel: The History of Labour Intermediation : Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Finding Work and Organizing Placement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1 Organizing the Market? Labour Offices and Labour Markets in Germany, 1890–1933
2 Between Labour Market Constituencies: The Struggles to Establish Vocational Counselling in Weimar Germany
3 Organizing Labour Markets: The British Experience
4 Creating a National Labour Market: Public Labour Exchanges in Sweden, 1890–1920
5 From Placement Control to Control of the Unemployed: Trade Unions and Labour Market Intermediation in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
6 Labour Intermediation, Uncertain Employment and the bourses du travail in Late Nineteenth-Century France
7 Transforming Soldiers into Workers: The Austrian Employment Agency for Disabled Veterans during the First World War
8 The Use of Public Labour Offices by Job Seekers in Interwar Austria
9 A Vocation in the Family Household? Household Integration, Professionalization and Changes of Position in Domestic Service (Austria, 1918–1938)
10 Tramping in Search of Work: Practices of Wayfarers and of Authorities (Austria, 1880–1938)
11 Labour Mediation among Seasonal Workers, Particularly the Lippe Brickmakers, 1650–1900
12 Sardars, Kanganies and Maistries: Intermediaries in the Indian Labour Diaspora during the Colonial Period
13 ‘Organizing the Labour Market’ in a Liberal Welfare State: The Origins of the Public Employment Service in Australia
Concluding Remarks
Notes on Contributors
Index

Beteiligte: Buchner, Thomas [Mitwirkende:r]; Buchner, Thomas [Herausgeber:in]; Edling, Nils [Mitwirkende:r]; Knotter, Ad [Mitwirkende:r]; Lourens, Piet [Mitwirkende:r]; Lucassen, Jan [Mitwirkende:r]; Mansfield, Malcolm [Mitwirkende:r]; Mejstrik, Alexander [Mitwirkende:r]; Mejstrik, Alexander [Herausgeber:in]; Meskill, David [Mitwirkende:r]; Mishra, Amit Kumar [Mitwirkende:r]; O’Donnell, Anthony [Mitwirkende:r]; Pawlowsky, Verena [Mitwirkende:r]; Richter, Jessica [Mitwirkende:r]; Vana, Irina [Mitwirkende:r]; Wadauer, Sigrid [Mitwirkende:r]; Wadauer, Sigrid [Herausgeber:in]; Wendelin, Harald [Mitwirkende:r]; Whiteside, Noel [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2015]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (444 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781782385516

ISBN: 9781782385516

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Schlagwörter: Employment agencies History 19th century ; Employment agencies History 20th century ; Labor History 19th century ; Labor History 20th century ; HISTORY / Social History

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors explore how looking for work becomes a means by which participants (individuals, placement agents, trade unions, municipalities, administrations, state authorities, and schools) articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. Taking an exploratory approach, the chapters illustrate different approaches to the history of employment and job searching, ranging from organizational and regulatory histories to the analysis of practices and autobiographical accounts. In the process, they uncover the interrelations of search practices and attempts to arrange placement services

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