The History of Labour Intermediation: Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (International Studies in Social History, 26)

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.-- Edited By Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner And Alexander Mejstrik. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Finding Work and Organizing Placement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 1 Organizing the Market? Labour Offices and Labour Markets in Germany, 1890–1933 2 Between Labour Market Constituencies: The Struggles to Establish Vocational Counselling in Weimar Germany 3 Organizing Labour Markets: The British Experience 4 Creating a National Labour Market: Public Labour Exchanges in Sweden, 1890–1920 5 From Placement Control to Control of the Unemployed: Trade Unions and Labour Market Intermediation in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 6 Labour Intermediation, Uncertain Employment and the bourses du travail in Late Nineteenth-Century France 7 Transforming Soldiers into Workers: The Austrian Employment Agency for Disabled Veterans during the First World War 8 The Use of Public Labour Offices by Job Seekers in Interwar Austria 9 A Vocation in the Family Household? Household Integration, Professionalization and Changes of Position in Domestic Service (Austria, 1918–1938) 10 Tramping in Search of Work: Practices of Wayfarers and of Authorities (Austria, 1880–1938) 11 Labour Mediation among Seasonal Workers, Particularly the Lippe Brickmakers, 1650–1900 12 Sardars, Kanganies and Maistries: Intermediaries in the Indian Labour Diaspora during the Colonial Period 13 ‘Organizing the Labour Market’ in a Liberal Welfare State: The Origins of the Public Employment Service in Australia Concluding Remarks Notes on Contributors Index 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.-- Provided by publisher Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.