Condensed Capitalism : Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century /

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Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed this trend. One of America's most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup Company, was one such except...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sidorick, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Campbell Soup Company > History.
Campbell Soup Company
Soup industry > Employees > Labor unions > New Jersey > Camden > History.
Industrial relations > New Jersey > Camden > History.
Production management > New Jersey > Camden > History.
Soupes > Industrie > Personnel > Syndicats > New Jersey > Camden > Histoire.
Relations industrielles > New Jersey > Camden > Histoire.
Production > Gestion > New Jersey > Camden > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Industrial relations
Production management
New Jersey > Camden
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Global Strategies, Hometown Factories
  • 1. Making Campbell's Soup: Camden, 1869-1935
  • 2. Bedaux, Discipline, and Radical Unions
  • 3. World War II and the Transformation of the Workforce
  • 4. The Fight to Save Local 80, 1946-1953
  • 5. The UPWA's Social Unionism versus William Beverly Murphy
  • 6. 1968: The Strike for Unity
  • 7. Waiting for the End
  • 8. Legacies
  • Notes
  • Note on Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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