The History of Labour Intermediation

Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-550-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 792 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors explore how looking for work becomes a means by which participants (individuals, placement agents, trade unions, municipalities, administrations, state authorities, and schools) articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. Taking an exploratory approach, the chapters illustrate different approaches to the history of employment and job searching, ranging from organizational and regulatory histories to the analysis of practices and autobiographical accounts. In the process, they uncover the interrelations of search practices and attempts to arrange placement services.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wadauer, Sigrid

Buchner, Thomas

Mejstrik, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Beschäftigung, Arbeitslosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Finding Work and Organizing Placement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner, Alexander Mejstrik

Chapter 1. Organizing the Market? Labour Offices and Labour Markets in Germany, 1890-1933

Thomas Buchner

Chapter 2. Between Labour Market Constituencies: The Struggles to Establish Vocational Counselling in Weimar Germany

David Meskill

Chapter 3. Organizing Labour Markets: the British Experience

Noel Whiteside

Chapter 4. Creating a National Labour Market: Public Labour Exchanges in Sweden, 1890-1920

Nils Edling

Chapter 5. Mediation, Allocation, Control: Trade Unions and the Changing Faces of Labour Market Intermediation in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Ad Knotter

Chapter 6. Labour Intermediation, Uncertain Employment and the Bourses du Travail in Late Nineteenth Century France

Malcolm Mansfield

Chapter 7. Transforming Soldiers into Workers. The Austrian Employment Agency for Disabled Veterans During the First World War

Verena Pawlowsky, Harald Wendelin

Chapter 8. The Usage of Public Labour Offices by Job Seekers in Interwar Austria

Irina Vana

Chapter 9. A Vocation in the Family Household? Household Integration, Professionalization and Changes of Positions in Domestic Service (Austria, 1918-1938)

Jessica Richter

Chapter 10. Tramping in Search of Work. Practices of Wayfarers and of Authorities (Austria, 1880–1938)

Sigrid Wadauer

Chapter 11. Labour Mediation Among Seasonal Workers, Particularly the Lippe Brickmakers, 1650-1900

Piet Lourens, Jan Lucassen

Chapter 12. Sardars, Kanganies and Maistries: Intermediaries in the Indian Labour Diaspora During the Colonial Period

Amit Kumar Mishra

Chapter 13. ‘Organizing the Labour Market’ in a Liberal Welfare State: The Origins of the Public Employment Service in Australia

Anthony O’Donnell



Concluding Remarks

Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner, Alexander Mejstrik

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mejstrik, Alexander
Alexander Mejstrik is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, ERC-project “The Production of Work.” He is co-Editor of the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies and recently co-edited a special issue entitled Die Erzeugung des Berufs (1/2013) with Thomas Buchner and Sigrid Wadauer.

Buchner, Thomas
Thomas Buchner is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, ERC-project “The Production of Work.” His recent publications include Shadow economies and irregular work in urban Europe: 16th to 20th centuries (Münster, Vienna and Berlin 2011) (ed. with Philip. R. Hoffmann-Rehnitz).

Wadauer, Sigrid
Sigrid Wadauer is currently Fellow at the International Research Center Work and Lifecycle in Global History at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is principal investigator of the START- and ERC Starting Grant-Project “The Production of Work” at the University in Vienna.

Sigrid Wadauer is currently Fellow at the International Research Center Work and Lifecycle in Global History at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is principal investigator of the START- and ERC Starting Grant-Project “The Production of Work” at the University in Vienna.