The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America eBook

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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 literature on the development of the U.S. welfare state, Andrea Tone offers a new interpretation of the importance of welfare capitalism in shaping its development.

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The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America is written by Andrea Tone and published by Cornell University Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Business of Benevolence are 9781501717482, 1501717480 and the print ISBNs are 9780801430282, 0801430283.