Employee Relations and the Quaker Employers Conference of 1918: The Cadbury Company
This article considers the part Quaker employers played in promoting new and different ways of practising employee relations early in the twentieth century. After providing background information to the events leading up to the first Quaker Employers Conference of 1918, attention shifts to the Confe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Quaker studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-248 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDG Free church NCE Business ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
industrial democracy
B Quaker Employers Conference 1918 B War and Social Order Committee B the Cadbury company B Employee Relations B the Labour movement |
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| Summary: | This article considers the part Quaker employers played in promoting new and different ways of practising employee relations early in the twentieth century. After providing background information to the events leading up to the first Quaker Employers Conference of 1918, attention shifts to the Conference itself. The Conference provided a platform for Labour movement activists to state their case before Quaker employers went on to discuss their pressing concerns. The final section of the paper uses the Cadbury company as a case study to examine the ways in which one Quaker company was prepared to experiment' with new and different ways of conducting employee relations. The article concludes by arguing that the Cadbury company was being used as a model of good practice to which other Quaker employers might aspire. |
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| ISSN: | 2397-1770 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Quaker studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2019.24.2.4 |