Works
- The Inside Contract System, The Journal of Economic History 12(3), 205 to 221, 1952
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The history of inside contracting at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Ideas
The inside contract system. He described the nineteenth-century American factory in which the firm supplied the plant, machinery, materials, and working capital and sold the product, while inside contractors hired, supervised, and paid their own workers and received a piece rate from the company. Caveat: Drawn mainly from one gun shop's records; his definition is best known through Williamson's quotation of it.