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Power, Profits, and Patriarchy
The Social Organization of Work at a British Metal Trades Firm, 1791-1922
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2001
Summary
Founded in 1791 and in existence for more than two hundred years, the Kenrick iron foundry of West Bromwich, England produced some of the finest cast-iron hardware ever made. William and Clifford Staples' goal in studying the Kenrick case is to examine how taken-for-granted assumptions about class, gender, and familial relations contributed to the longevity of the firm. The authors' investigation uncovers three distinct political regimes of production that they characterize as successive forms of capitalist patriarchy. Indeed, it is contended that the Kenricks were able to maintain their power and their profits, to a great extent, because they were able to use patriarchy to solve pressing organizational problems. By balancing a concern with both the materiality of production and its ideological, cultural, and political moments, this book offers new insights into the nature of production politics, patriarchy, and the historical sociology of capitalism.
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Copyright year
2001
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-1640-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-1324-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
205
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
List of Abbreviations No access
1: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
2: "Masters and Servants": The Foundations of Patriarchy, 1791-1867 No access Pages 13 - 30
3: With "Liberality and Kindness": The Genesis of Paternalism, 1868-1891 No access Pages 31 - 56
4: "You Are Not Paid to Think": The Collapse of Paternalism, 1892-1913 No access Pages 57 - 92
5: "A Personal Interest in the Prosperity of Their Employers": Bureaucratic Hegemony and the Origins of Social Patriarchy, 1914-1922 No access Pages 93 - 122
