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A place to live and work : the Henry Disston saw works and the Tacony community of Philadelphia
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A place to live and work : the Henry Disston saw works and the Tacony community of Philadelphia

Author: Harry C Silcox
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harry C Silcox
ISBN: 0271010797 9780271010793
OCLC Number: 27813649
Description: xix, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Henry Disston Founds a Business and a Community, 1819-1878 --
2. Paternalism and Nineteenth-Century Tacony, 1872-1900 --
3. Henry Disston's Management Style and the Accumulation of Wealth, 1860-1878 --
4. Pluralism Comes to Tacony, 1885-1918 --
5. Paternalism to Industrial Welfare, 1909-1929 --
6. Inside the Factory in the 1920s: Plant Design, Worker Skills, Turnover, Sales, and Quality --
7. The Depression, New-Product Development, and World War II, 1929-1945 --
8. Unionism Begins at Henry Disston & Sons: The CIO, the AFL, and Strikes, 1935-1950 --
9. The Selling of Henry Disston & Sons: H.K. Porter Company Comes to Tacony, 1950-1984 --
Appendix A: Disston Company Name History --
Appendix B: Disston Company Presidents.
Responsibility: Harry C. Silcox.

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