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An Early Industrial Capitalist's Labor Policy and Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Henrietta M. Larson
Henrietta M. Larson
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Harvard University.
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Extract

The current importance of labor administration in business highlights the need for a better understanding of the historical background of the relations of business and labor. No part of American history has been more inadequately handled. Three aspects of the history of labor have been emphasized above everything else: labor organization, the conflict of labor and employer, and “exploitation” of labor by business. This approach has tended to engender conflict rather than to promote understanding.

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Business History Review , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , November 1944 , pp. 132 - 141
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1944

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References

1 The original, “The Collins Company, 1826–1867, Reminiscences of Samuel Watkinson Collins,” is in the Company's vault at Collinsville, Conn. It was written from memory and from letters and other papers which Collins kept. The excerpts herein reproduced were taken from pages 8 to 10 and 31 to 35 of a typewritten copy in the Baker Library, Harvard University.

2 This statement and the committee's reply were published in the BULLETIN, vol. vi, no 5 (Nov., 1932), pp. 18–20.