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.
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The History of Labour Intermediation
Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Organizing the Market?
- Chapter 2 Between Labour Market Constituencies
- Chapter 3 Organizing Labour Markets
- Chapter 4 Creating a National Labour Market
- Chapter 5 From Placement Control to Control of the Unemployed
- Chapter 6 Labour Intermediation, Uncertain Employment and the bourses du travail
- Chapter 7 Transforming Soldiers into Workers
- Chapter 8 The Use of Public Labour Offices by Job Seekers in Interwar Austria
- Chapter 9 A Vocation in the Family Household?
- Chapter 10 Tramping in Search of Work
- Chapter 11 Labour Mediation among Seasonal Workers, Particularly the Lippe Brickmakers, 1650-1900
- Chapter 12 Sardars, Kanganies and Maistries
- Chapter 13 ‘Organizing the Labour Market’ in a Liberal Welfare State
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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