Control by Coercion: Employers' Associations and the Establishment of Industrial Order in the Building Industry of England and Wales, 1860–1914

McKenna, J. A.; Rodger, Richard

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“…Standardization and the use of pre-fabricated parts increased thereafter: window frames, bricks, and other materials became more regular. Some powered machinery began to be used, like steam cranes and drilling machines, but this only had a real impact toward the end of the century (McKenna and Rodger 1985).…”

Section: Liberalized Artisanismmentioning

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Guilds in the transition to modernity: The cases of Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands

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One important aspect of the transition to modernity is the survival of elements of the Old Regime beyond the French Revolution. It has been claimed that this can explain why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries some Western countries adopted national corporatist structures while others transformed into liberal market economies. One of those elements is the persistence or absence of guild traditions. This is usually analyzed in a national context. This article aims to contribute to the debate by investigating the development of separate trades in Germany, the United Kingdom, and The Netherlands throughout the nineteenth century. We distinguish six scenarios of what might have happened to crafts and investigate how the prevalence of each of these scenarios in the three countries had an impact on the emerging national political economies. By focusing on trades, rather than on the Theor Soc (2018) 47:255-291 https://doi

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Section: Liberalized Artisanismmentioning

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Guilds in the transition to modernity: The cases of Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands

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“…Given the historical dynamic of industrial conditions and union formation in the trade, open shops were rarely a viable option. Technological change (the use of steel and concrete, of large-frame buildings, and of machine-produced components) and the division of craft labor nevertheless proceeded within the context of local trade agreements and strong trade unionism, and did so more rapidly than in Britain (Christie, 1956;McKenna and Rodger, 1985). And, under these conditions, American culture did not inhibit union growth relative to Britain.…”

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Trade Agreement vs. Open Shop: Employers' Choices before WWI

Haydu¹

1989

Industrial Relations

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Neither cultural individualism nor hostility to craft control adequately explains American employers' rejection of collective bargaining before World War I. Evidence from selected cases in the U.S. and Britain suggests both that open‐shop policies and trade agreements helped employers manage workplace conflict amid major changes in production practices, and that the relative timing and pace of changes in technology, market structure, and union growth shaped employers' choices.

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“…Expressed differently, the instability of the British building industry over a sixty-year period was 168% above the next most unstable sector, textiles, double that of both the engineering and metallurgical industries, and respectively 261%, 345% and 645% greater than chemicals, mining and utilities. 67 These bouts of unprecedented instability in production were partly the consequence of structural conditions inherent in the building industry. They were also attributable in part to the absence of restrictions on the activities of builders.…”

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Political Economy, Ideology and the Persistence of Working-Class Housing Problems in Britain, 1850–1914

Rodger¹

1987

Int Rev of Soc His

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Nineteenth-century housing was not all gloom and doom. For significant elements of the nation the standard of comfort and material welfare improved substantially.1 Suburbanization of the middle classes in the second half of the century appreciably improved environmental conditions, the family in particular benefitting from a semi-rural existence with only the commuting breadwinner subject to the hostility of urban conditions. 2 In the last third of the nineteenth century rising real incomes were especially beneficial to artisans and the more regularly employed labouring class. Linoleum, curtains, parlour furniture, even pianos transformed the immediate appearance of the home; shoes, a change of clothes and running water that of the people; and the kitchen range, water closets and gas mantles re-arranged the domestic patterns in other respects. 4 The possibility of an So fundamental and widespread were these improvements, it has been suggested, that the internal physical space of the working-class home was re-arranged. 7 The separation of kitchen and living room effectively added another room, for example, taking smells of cooking out of the main socializing area in the home, and physically segregating women to a separate rather than an integrated existence in the home. While the catalogues of kitchen ranges, the production of baths, furniture and other domestic equipment reflect growing consumerism, this was by no means universal. 8Indeed for the unskilled, irregularly employed or sweated piece-rate worker, the segregation within the grades of manual workers and the increasing gap between rising expectations and actual living conditions may well have been more acutely felt. Trade-union organization and the extension of the franchise, for example, drove divisions between different components of the working class, 9 and housing conditions served to reinforce this. Recent research has stressed improvements in working-class dwellings through four channels: first, rising real incomes and consumption levels in the last third of the nineteenth century; 10 second, philanthropic housing 5

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Control by Coercion: Employers' Associations and the Establishment of Industrial Order in the Building Industry of England and Wales, 1860–1914

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Guilds in the transition to modernity: The cases of Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands

Guilds in the transition to modernity: The cases of Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands

Trade Agreement vs. Open Shop: Employers' Choices before WWI

Political Economy, Ideology and the Persistence of Working-Class Housing Problems in Britain, 1850–1914

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