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Non-Adversarial Labor Relations In Nineteenth Century Maine: The S. D. Warren Company, Charles A. Scontras Jun 1997

Non-Adversarial Labor Relations In Nineteenth Century Maine: The S. D. Warren Company, Charles A. Scontras

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Like industrial corporations all across America, the S. D. Warren Company searched for a policy that would maintain labor peace at the company's mills. Founder Samuel Dennis Warren's solutions helped set the themes for Progressive-era experiments in “welfare capitalism. " While there was no mistaking of promoting a new morality for American industrial society. Charles A. Scontras, professor of political the hierarchical nature of decision-making at the company, the Warren family saw itself in a larger role science at the University of Maine and research associate at the university's Bureau of Labor Education, has written numerous books on organized labor …