The History of Labour Intermediation : Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Organizing the Market? -- Chapter 2 Between Labour Market Constituencies -- Chapter 3 Organizing Labour Markets -- Chapter 4 Creating a National Labour Market -- Chapter 5 From Placement Control to Control of the Unemployed -- Chapter 6 Labour Intermediation, Uncertain Employment and the bourses du travail -- Chapter 7 Transforming Soldiers into Workers -- Chapter 8 The Use of Public Labour Offices by Job Seekers in Interwar Austria -- Chapter 9 A Vocation in the Family Household? -- Chapter 10 Tramping in Search of Work -- Chapter 11 Labour Mediation among Seasonal Workers, Particularly the Lippe Brickmakers, 1650-1900 -- Chapter 12 Sardars, Kanganies and Maistries -- Chapter 13 'Organizing the Labour Market' in a Liberal Welfare State -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.