History 2125F/G Lecture Notes - Scientific Management, Price Fixing
6 Dec 2012
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Recall the np: create canada = bna act, physical expansion, railway building, settling the west, building a proletariat, protectionist policy. Considerations big operations and new notions labouring lives: staples, rural, urban: workers react. Unions of many sorts divisions and limits. Mergers these three things lead to elitist control. Industrial change building one big plant and close six little ones to promote efficiency however as a result more and more people are without their own businesses. Further consolidating banking constant money asserts up 3 folkd. 1901-13 tp 2. 3 billion from 37 firms 1897 to 24 now there are only 5 bigger operations that require different runnings and operations. Corporations as citizens limited liability and joint stock. Manager runs to maximize shareholder value larger operation = more. More clerical staff: was too expensive to have men do this so women do it - and this was a very esteemed position, manager - depersonalization.
