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The Filene Store
A Study of Employes’ Relation to Management in a Retail Store
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541 pages
About This Book
With a foreword by Mary Van Kleeck. Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. This volume examined William Filene’s Sons Company, a Boston department store, particularly the development of its human relations as an integral part of its business aims and its methods of management.
Mary La Dame, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation