Knowledge Management: An International Journal

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access
Open Access Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Restricted Access Subscription Access

Management Lessons for Information Age Leaders from an Industrial Age Strike


Affiliations
1 Midway College, United States
     

   Subscribe/Renew Journal


Between January and March of 1912, the "Bread and Roses" strike in the textile center of Lawrence, Massachusetts, captured the attention of the nation. While the strike was sparked by a decrease in pay; the issues of the strike were more complex and entailed conflict over economic power, working conditions, workplace dignity, diversity, and corporate social responsibility. This paper considers those issues both from a historical and current perspective identifying lessons that organizational leaders can use today.

Keywords

Management, Economic Power, Working Conditions, Workplace Dignity, Diversity, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Subscription Login to verify subscription
User
Notifications
Font Size


  • Arnold, Dexter. A Row of Bricks: Worker Activism in the Merrimack Valley Textile Industry(PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985) Retrieved from Dissertation andTheses database (UMI No. 8501566)

  • Baker, Ray S. The Revolutionary Strike. The American Magazine, May 1912. Retrieved from Google Books

  • Blewett, Mary. 2004, November. Textile Workers in the American Northeast and South: Shifting Landscapes of Class, Culture, Race, and Protest. Retrieved from: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KJgc9k4hqQ8J:www.iisg.nl/research/usa.doc&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESihguK1lcLyGjp24_nvaNP-yAqdJ4ERDllOGvawksWaJ21J6rJXLzVLI_Wl1BeYS0rwow_x7UpofnKrRDqZkqIYUEmfBwm2pQUjqr4icRhCK6UcOBFY7nlp7JP5VDftmJYA0ju&sig=AHIEtbQRqrJVHF5R2c04IaFSsRd3a0QQ4w

  • Buchholz, Rogene. A. 1991. Corporate Responsibility and the Good Society: From Economics to Ecology. Business Horizons, 34(4), 19-31. Retrieved from EBSCO

  • Buder, Stanley 2009. A Social History of American Business, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina

  • Cameron, Ardis 1995. Radicals of the worst sort. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

  • Carroll, Archie. B. 1991. The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders. Business Horizons, 34(4), 39-48.Retrieved from ESBCO

  • Cole, Arthur. H. 1923. "A Neglected Chapter in the History of Combinations: The American Wool Manufacture" The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 37. no. 3 (1923): 436-475.Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1883849

  • Cole. Donald. B. 1963. Immigrant City - Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press Commerce and Labor, Commission of Labor. (1912). Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass. In 1912. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

  • Dalzell, Robert. F. 1987. Enterprising Elite - The Boston Associates and the World They Made. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  • Freeland, Chrysia "Some See Two New Gilded Ages, Raising Global Tensions." New York Time, January 22, 2012. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/business/global/wrenching-the-globe-into-a-new-economic-orbit.html?pagewanted=all

  • Hart, Stuart. L. n.d. "The Third-Generation Corporation” Retrieved from http://www.stuartlhart.com/sites/stuartlhart.com/files/The%20Third%20Generation%20Corporation%20Paper%20Hart%2010-18-10.pdf)

  • Heald, M. 1970. The social responsibilities of business - company and community, 1990-1960. Cleveland, OH: The Press of Case Western Reserve University.

  • Heslin, Peter. A., & Jenna. D. Ocha 2008. Understanding and developing strategic corporate responsibility. Organizational Dynamics, 37(2), pp.125-144. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2008.02.002

  • Hobson, Randy 2001. Dignity at Work Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001 Hooper, Ken., & Hooper, Will 2007. The Puritan Gift - Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos. New York, NY: MacMillian.

  • Howe, Daniel. W. 1979. The Political Culture of the American Whigs . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago

  • Hughes, Lynn Gordan n.d.. Nathan Appleton in the Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography Retrieved from http://www25-temp.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/nathanappleton.html

  • Lavengood, Lawrence. G. 1959. "American Business and the Piety of Profits." Harvard Business Review 37 (1959), Retrieved from EBSCO

  • Leung, Rebecca 2009. The Mensch of Malden Mills, (2009, 02 11, New York: CBS, Sixty Minutes) retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/03/60minutes/main561656.shtml? tag=mncol;lst;1

  • Lebergott, Stanley 1960. Wage trends, 1800-1900. In The Conference on Research in Incomeand Wealth (Ed.), Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century (pp. pp.449-500). Retrieved from http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2486

  • Lieberman, Robert C. 2011. Why the rich are getting richer: American politics and the second gilded age. Foreign Affairs, 90(1), 154-III. Retrieved from EBSCO

  • Martin, Roger 2010. The Age of Customer Capitalism. Harvard Business Review, 88(1/2), 58-65.

  • McKay, John 2011. What Conscious Capitalism Really Is, California Management Review, 53, no. 3 Retrieved from EBSCO

  • McPherson, John.Bruce 1912. The Lawrence Strike of 1912 Boston: The Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1912 Retrieved from Google Books

  • Moyers, Bill 2008. Bill Moyers' Journal, (06 13; Washington: PBS) Transcript retrieved fromhttp://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06132008/transcript4.html

  • O’Sullivan Mary. K. 1912, 04 6. The Labor War at Lawrence, Survey, 72-74. Retrieved from Google Books

  • Phillips, Kevin. 2002, May 26. The new face of another gilded age. The Washington Post.Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/409307650?accountid=35812

  • Porter Michael E. and Mark R. Kramer. (2006) "Strategy & Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 12: 78-92. Retrieved from EBSCO

  • Robinson, Harriet H. 1976. Loom & spindle or life among the early mill girls. Kailua, HI: Press Pacifica.

  • Sethi, S., & Steidlmeier, P. (1995). The evolution of business' role in society. Business & Society Review (00453609), (94), 9.

  • Smith, Hendrick 2012. Who Stole the American Dream? New York, NY: Random House.van Elteren, Mel 2003, June. Worker's Control and the Struggles Against "Wage Slavery" in theGilded Age and After. The Journal of American Culture, 26(2), 188-203. Retrieved from EBSCO

  • Voorhees, R. G. 2007. Finance in history: Labor days. CFO.com, Retrieved from http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/9727557/1/c_2984355?f=rsspage

  • Warner Jr., Sam 1984., Province of Reason. London: Belknap Press

  • Watson, Bruce 2005., Bread & Roses - Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream New York, NY: Viking.

  • Weinberg, M. (2004). Chapter 4: Two Working classes: 1790-1890. In A Short History of American Capitalism doi:www.allshookdown.com/newhistory/CH04.htm

  • Wollslager, E. 2007. "Revisiting Malden Mills a Decade Later: Excellent or Extravagance? Conference Paper – National Communication Association Communication & Mass Media Complete, Retrieved from EBSCO.


Abstract Views: 169

PDF Views: 0




  • Management Lessons for Information Age Leaders from an Industrial Age Strike

Abstract Views: 169  |  PDF Views: 0

Authors

Frank Fletcher
Midway College, United States

Abstract


Between January and March of 1912, the "Bread and Roses" strike in the textile center of Lawrence, Massachusetts, captured the attention of the nation. While the strike was sparked by a decrease in pay; the issues of the strike were more complex and entailed conflict over economic power, working conditions, workplace dignity, diversity, and corporate social responsibility. This paper considers those issues both from a historical and current perspective identifying lessons that organizational leaders can use today.

Keywords


Management, Economic Power, Working Conditions, Workplace Dignity, Diversity, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

References