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Robert Hyde
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The foundation of Boys' Welfare Association
The bad working conditions, problems in employers’ meals and dangerous incidents during work without any public outcry, were some of the basic reasons which inspired Robert Hyde to create the Boy’s Welfare Association in 1918. (Industrial Welfare Society one year later) -
Formation of the employer Council
The first meeting of the Council, chaired by Lord Invernairn (Sir William Beardmore). Honorary Treasurer Steven Alley. -
The First Boys' Welfare Journal
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Rowntree
Seebohm Rowntree: Responsible to set up an advisory welfare department. He worked closely with Robert Hyde who was his consultant and assisted in the foundation of the Industrial Welfare Society in 1918. They built up a relationship which lasted until Rowntree’s death. -
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Changes and Reforms
Change of name from ‘The Boys’ Welfare Association’ to ‘The Industrial Welfare Society’.
For men principles:
To encourage the study among employers and managers of labour of questions affecting the welfare of male persons engaged in industry.
To assist employers of labour in starting schemes for promoting the welfare of their male employees. -
Prince Albert as president
Prince Albert (George VI- Duke of York) - Named president of the Boy’s Welfare Association. Keen interested in the Association, visited many factories and institutes. In 1921 he visited the ‘Camp for boy’s’ in which were boys from all classes mix. He remained president until 1936 when he became a patron. His patronage increased the influence of the society tremendously. -
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Prince Albert
Prince Albert becomes president and remained until his death. -
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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The First conference at Balliol College Oxford
First Balliol College conference for welfare supervisors:
Case study published where productivity increased as working hours reduced by cutting out work before breakfast.
Campaigned for women’s welfare.
Cafeteria system intro, by Cadbury Bros.
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The Conference of Doctors
The Industrial Society participated in a medical conference pioneering on focusing on employees’ health. Pioneered in industrial services such as:
Dental, orthopaedic, ophthalmic and chiropody services.
30 doctors participated in this conference Sir Thomas Morrison Legge: The first medical inspector of factories and workshops. He was the person who encouraged R. Hyde to participate to this conference in 1921. -
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The organisation's contribution to the society
• The membership rose significantly to 600 organisations.
• The Industrial Society helped the medical advisory committee to flourish with the help of Robert Hyde. He sought to bring the industrial doctors into his society by allowing them to form the medical advisory committee. In this way, he provided them with an opportunity to meet and discuss occupational problems. -
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Further Contributions of the Industrial Society
Due to high protest the organisation incentivised to deal with issues such as:
Physical working conditions: the attention increased in matters such as environmental conditions- lightning, heating, ventilation, seating and cleanliness. New department of Industrial Hygiene and Medicine at the University of Birmingham was created. Organisations cited by the Society were inevitably those with new factories, like Boots Pure Drug Co., Gillette and Batchelors Peas. -
General Strike
General Strike against coal miners' pay cuts paralysed the country, though was broken by Winston Churchill. -
Promotion schemes, Pension funds and Benefits
The government with advice from the Society set up a committee to look at the implications of paid holidays. Various difficulties were foreseen but the war interrupted the action. However, individual companies started to pay holidays for one or two weeks. -
Further Contributions from the Industrial Society
The founder (R. Hyde) took incentives by organising dinners to bring closer industrialists to doctors to talk about the new methods of treatment and in the long term to invest in new fracture clinics.
Pioneering welfare work on the treatment of fractures and rehabilitation of patients with the BMA.
These initiatives attracted the interest of the government once again and the Ministry of Health introduced the Disable Persons Act.
New fracture unit built in Luton. -
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Adjustments
• Music while work – talks with BBC
• In 1946 the Society organised 20 conferences and 1,150 were attended.
• After the war the society had managed to keep all the connections with employers and trade unions.
• Post war staff shortages need to incentivise employee to meet expectations. -
The Coal Industry in Britain Nationalised
The nationalisation of the coal industry represents a major shift in industrial policy. It allowed for the rationalisation of the coal industry, with the closure of many small pits, although the nationalised industry soon came to need state subsidies in order to delay further restructuring and closures. -
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Books which had been published
Canteens in Industry (sixth edition)
Works Councils and Committees
Assessing the Job
Joint Consultation
Works Lavatories
Employee Benefit Schemes
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John Marsh appointed the 2nd Director in the Society
Under Marsh's direction the Society turned more positively from the provision of good physical working conditions to the fostering of good human relations in industry. -
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John Marsh
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Prince Philip
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Elizabeth Pepperell
She joined the society as an assistant director. She pioneered against occupational gender discrimination during her duties in the organisation and her work inspired followers while in 1970 and 1975 the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act were arrived. -
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Prince Philip
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The organisation started to work on case studies of human problems at work on sound filmstrips
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Maud Reed
Pioneer in the visual aid field. She took pride in the credibility of her strips (their characters carrying the ‘message’, be about communication, industrial relations etc.) -
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John Garnett
3rd Director. He changed the name from Industrial Welfare Association to Industrial Society and made it the leading influence in Britain in man management through courses, conferences, but above all through his speeches. -
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Alistair Graham
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Rhiannon Chapman
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Tony Morgan
Director -
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Will Hutton
