Liberalism and paternalism: Politics and corporate culture in ‘railway derby’, 1865–75

Rethinking industrial citizenship: the role and meaning of work in an age of austerity

“…The scholarship on industrial paternalism emphasizes both continuity and change from early versions to later manifestations. Revill (: 202) notes the way in the nineteenth century early factory paternalism (the need to instil industrial discipline on a largely rural labour supply) notable amongst textile masters gave way to the ‘New Paternalism’ between 1850 and 1875 (the attempt to create ideological of co‐operation in predominantly urban settings). Indeed Waller's () research on the Dukeries Coalfield of the East Midlands highlights the changing nature of paternalistic management in the first few decades of the twentieth century.…”

Railway labour and the geography of collective bargaining: the Midland Railway strikes of 1879 and 1887

“…76 The combination of threat and leniency suggested by this offer is paralleled time and again in these strikes and in the industry more generally. 77 The prosecution of several drivers for leaving their locomotives on the line provides a defining instance of this. After successfully pursuing their case against the men, the MR asked the bench to impose only a 'nominal penalty'.…”

“…Central to the maintenance of a relationship between workers and the company was an explicit discourse of personalisation which has some resonance with the then current discourse of factory paternalism. 68 It functioned as a link between the myth of bureaucratic impartiality expressed at one level by the company and the militaristic implementation of systems and structures on the ground by individual 'officers' of the company. Notable in 1887 is the way the strikers themselves personalised their complaints against the company.…”

“…10 Derby, the location of its headquarters' became a focus for mobilising collective action in the railway industry in the 1870s. 11 The differing capacities of workers and management to organise and defend their interests in the labour process requires some understanding of the scale at which each is able to act effectively. The need for workers to act at the local level using the resources of skill, knowledge and physical strength they bring to production has been widely recognised.…”

Los primeros servicios sanitarios de empresa en España. Las prácticas médicas en las compañías ferroviarias 1848-1900

“…En este sentido, los médicos discriminaban aquellos trabajadores cuyos problemas de salud pudieran derivarse de conductas inapropiadas, como riñas, la embriaguez o enfermedades de transmisión sexual. Ante estos hechos, la sanción consistía en ser separado de la empresa (Gratton, 1990;Savage, 1998;Revill, 1999).…”