Description: Place to Live and Work : The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia, Paperback by Silcox, Harry C., ISBN 0271030755, ISBN-13 9780271030753, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. Th provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful family-owned businesses, from its modest beginnings in 1840 to the 1940s, when Disston products were known worldwide, to the sale and demise of the company in the postwar years. Henry Disston, however, not only built a factory; he also shaped Tacony, the town in northeastern Philadelphia where the workers lived. Th describes the company's interdependence with the community and profiles the lifestyle that grew out of Disston's paternalistic blueprint for Tacony. Using original letter books, shop committee meeting notes, photographs, and a wealth of other documents, Harry Silcox reveals Disston's highly sophisticated distribution and marketing system as well as a management system that, unlike the one advocated by Frederick Winslow Taylor, responded to the concerns of workers and foremen. Through two world wars, the Depression, and the rise of unions, Disston's innovative business practices enabled the company to remain active and strong even when factories across the nation were failing. This study raises important questions about the demise of the factory system and its impact on urban communities and family life. The Disston company provides one example of how people could work and live together successfully within the larger framework of the factory system.
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Book Title: Place to Live and Work : The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Taco
Number of Pages: 252 Pages
Publication Name: Place to Live and Work : the Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia
Language: English
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Subject: Social Aspects, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 19th Century
Publication Year: 1994
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 23.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, History
Author: Harry C. Silcox
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
