Hired Hands or Human Resources? : Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Early Human Resource Management -- THE PRACTICE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 1875-1920 -- HRM at the Beginning -- Contrasting HRM Strategies -- HRM and Alternative Systems of Workforce Governance -- HRM in the Industrial Heartland I -- HRM in the Industrial Heartland II -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- THE PRACTICE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 1920-1930 -- Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc. -- The Human Resource Model in a Welfare Capitalism Firm -- A High-Road Employer in a Low-Road Industry -- The Middle Ground of HRM in the 1920s -- Paternalism Combined with Decentralized and Informal HRM -- The "Hired Hand" Model in a Large Manufacturing Firm -- HRM in the Industrial Heartland III -- The Case Studies -- Notes -- Photo Credits -- Index.

In a companion volume to Managing the Human Factor, also from Cornell, Bruce E. Kaufman shows how American firms transitioned from the traditional "hired hand" model of human resource management (HRM) to the modern "human resources" version popular.

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