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1. "Habits of Employees": Smoking, Spies, and Shopfloor Culture at Hammermill Paper Company.

Author

WOOD, GREGORY

Subjects
*SMOKING, *BLUE collar workers, *INDUSTRIAL management, *EMPLOYEES, *CONDUCT of life, *INDUSTRIAL relations, *TWENTIETH century, *EMPLOYMENT, *SOCIAL history, *HISTORY of industrial relations
Abstract

An essay is presented on the subject of cigarette smoking among U.S. laborers in factories, corporate spying on workers, and the social culture of shopfloors in the U.S. during the 20th century. It examines the records of Erie, Pennsylvania, paper manufacturer Hammermill Paper Company concerning employee cigarette consumption, how employees attempted to evade corporate surveillance of their smoking, and labor relations in the U.S.

Published
2011
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