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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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