The circulation of practices: Americanizing social relations at the Cornigliano steel plant (Italy), 1948–1960

Ricciardi, Ferruccio

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“…Articles in Labor History (Ricciardi, 2010) and Labour History Review (Irving and Scalmer, 2000) attempted to unpack the modernisation of a steel plant and the role of the Australian Labour Party, respectively. Specifically, Irving and Scalmer suggested the Australian Labour Party transformed from traditional to social democracy through efforts to become more centralised and professional.…”

Section: Twenty-first-century Business History Scholarship On Modernisationmentioning

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The history of the modernisation construct

Seifried

Novičević

2017

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Purpose This paper aims to trace and/or historicise modernisation as a conceptual framework from the antecedents to present times. It also highlights the recent and past attention provided to modernisation by business and economic history scholars to recognise their contribution. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a literature review which offers a sample of debate from foundational scholars regarding the concept of modernisation emanating from sociologists, historians and business scholars. To present an analysis of the recent activity from business scholars on modernisation from highly recognizable journals and draw conclusions about the conceptual framework regarding its future as a framing device, the authors used search functions in the Business Source Complete database and specific journal search engines. Findings A keyword search of modernisation produced 45 published articles from 2000 to 2016 in business-related history and Financial Times top 50 journals. The foremost recognizable aspect of modernisation, as a construct presented here, demonstrates the concept that aims to illustrate a basic and/or universal pattern of the social processes that primarily affect development (e.g. cultural, economic, organisational, ecological, technological, etc.). Moreover, the authors demonstrate that economic and business scholars helped identify and explain different types of modernisation, reinforce or connect specific characteristics to modernisation, develop modernisation as an index capable of measurement and provide evidence of modernisation as a rhetorical strategy. Originality/value Little to no previous studies on modernisation emphasised on the contribution of business and economic historians; instead, they focused on the contributions of sociologists and social historians. Business and management historians served as an important voice in the development of modernisation as a conceptual frame. They highlighted the opportunities that are available to position modernisation as a useful tool to predict the future of traditional and advanced organisations.

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Section: Twenty-first-century Business History Scholarship On Modernisationmentioning

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The history of the modernisation construct

Seifried

Novičević

2017

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“…politiques, évêques et diplomates américains, et qui font de celui-ci une véritable vitrine de l'afirmation d'un nouveau modèle de relations sociales de type coopératif et non conlictuel (et surtout à l'abri de l'inluence communiste !) (Ricciardi, 2010).…”

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« Equal pay for a similar work », le mythe régulateur du salaire au poste dans l’Europe de la CECA (années 1950-1960)

Ricciardi¹

2013

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Doing It for Themselves: The Steel Company of Wales and the Study of American Industrial Productivity, 1945–1955

Miskell¹

2016

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This article examines the efforts of one British steel company to acquire knowledge about American industrial productivity in the first post-World War II decade. It argues that company information-gathering initiatives in this period were overshadowed by the work of the formal productivity missions of the Marshall Plan era. In particular, it compares the activities of the Steel Company of Wales with the Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP), whose iron and steel industry productivity team report was published in 1952. Based on evidence from its business records, this study shows that the Steel Company of Wales was undertaking its own international productivity investigations, which started earlier and were more extensive and differently focused from those of the AACP. It makes the case for viewing companies as active participants in the gathering and dissemination of productivity knowledge in Britain’s steel sector after 1945.

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The circulation of practices: Americanizing social relations at the Cornigliano steel plant (Italy), 1948–1960

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

The history of the modernisation construct

The history of the modernisation construct

« Equal pay for a similar work », le mythe régulateur du salaire au poste dans l’Europe de la CECA (années 1950-1960)

Doing It for Themselves: The Steel Company of Wales and the Study of American Industrial Productivity, 1945–1955

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