Hardy Green
Teoksen The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy tekijä
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The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy (2010) 107 kappaletta
The Year Of Living Abstemiously 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Muut nimet
- Green, Hardy S.
- Syntymäaika
- 1949
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Koulutus
- State University of New York Stony Brook (PhD|History)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 3
- Jäseniä
- 118
- Suosituimmuussija
- #167,490
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.0
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 1
- ISBN:t
- 5
The author does a pretty good job of summarizing the main points of the book, tying the patterns nicely of why some company towns were more like utopian communities and why others were hellish holes of exploitation. And we also get a glimpse at the modern incarnation of company towns such as the Googleplex, places that are not so much real "towns" as places where employees don't really have to go home.
Overall, this is a book worth reading as it gives a good picture of a very important part of American history. Readers interested in labor history as well will want to read this book.… (lisätietoja)