Whitehall and the labour problem in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain : a study in official statistics and social control / Roger Davidson
1985, First Edition. London : Croom Helm. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #431450
ISBN: 0709908326
Physical description; ix, 293 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The terms of the debate -- The labour problem -- The origins of the Labour Department -- The production structure of labour statistics -- The commodity structure of labour -- Statistics: rationale and content -- The commodity structure of labour statistics: the shortfall -- Treasury control and labour statistics -- The failure of ancillary producers -- Industrial resistance -- The technical structure of labour statistics -- The ideology of labour administration -- Labour statistics and social policy epilogue. Subjects; 1837-1936. Geschichte 1880-1914. Working class Great Britain Statistical services History. Labor supply Great Britain Statistical services History. Social control. Social Control, Formal.
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