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Quaker Employer Conference of 1918

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The Quaker Employer Conference of 1918 was held in April, just six months before the Great War ended. This first ever meeting was prompted by the adoption of a socialistic vision by London Yearly Meeting which challenged the capitalist beliefs upon which they had built their businesses. The attendees had ambitious goals; nothing less than trying to figure out a way to bring into being a new version of business. Unfortunately, they never came close to achieving those aims; instead it was the beginning of the end for Quaker employers. Regrettably, today we still struggle with the same issues that were unsolved a century ago.

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    Karen Tibbals

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  1. Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

    Nicholas Burton

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    Richard Turnbull

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Tibbals, K. (2019). Quaker Employer Conference of 1918. In: Burton, N., Turnbull, R. (eds) Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04034-5_5

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