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The War on the Shopfloor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2006

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
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The outbreak of World War II accentuated, and its conduct and immediate aftermath sustained, the mounting pressures on the jobber system and exposed its weaknesses more fully. These pressures upon the jobber emanated from three sources. First, the imperatives of the war economy facilitated the more intensive exploitation of labour. The jobber's traditional task, to reconcile workers to the demands of the mill-owners, became almost impossible to sustain. Indeed, it drew the full wrath of the workers upon the jobber.

Type
Document with Editorial Introduction
Information
International Review of Social History , Volume 51 , Issue S14 , December 2006 , pp. 263 - 277
Copyright
2006 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis