Company Town The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

Name: Company Town The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
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ISBN: 9780465018260

ISBN-10: 0465018262

ISBN-13: 9780465018260

Edition: 2010

Authors: Hardy Green

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From the looms at colonial Lowell, Massachusetts, to the tire plants in Akron, Ohio, to Google's Project 02 in The Dalles, Oregon, the company town has mirrored the development of American capitalism. InThe Company Town, Hardy Green, former associate editor at BusinessWeek, shows how two strands of capitalism have competed for ascendancy: one, a utopian vision of care and concern, rooted in a paternalistic idea that companies should take care of their workers, represented by such locales as Hershey, PA; the other, exploitative and profiteering, in which owners extract as much work for as little compensation as possible, as demonic as the Harlan County coal mines. At once a riveting history,…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 9/7/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English