Author: Makepeace, Margaret
Title: The East India Company's London workers: management of the warehouse labourers, 1800-1858 / Margaret Makepeace
Description: Woodbridge. Suffolk. U.K. ; Rochester. N.Y. : Boydell Press 2010. 1st Edition. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: x. 242 pages: illustrations. Contents: Introduction -- The East India Company warehouses -- The warehouse labourers -- Management strategies: incentives. rewards and benevolence -- Management strategies: systems of internal control -- The Royal East India Volunteers: the 'union of civil and military dependence' -- The relationship between the East India Company and its London warehouse labourers -- The warehouse closures -- Management of the warehouse labourers and pensioners. 1838-1858 -- Conclusion: 'Good masters to the lower class of their dependents.'. Subjects: East India Company Employees History 19th century. East India Company Employees Economic conditions 19th century. East India Company. East India Company History 19th century; Sources.

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