The factory in a garden A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
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- Hardcover
- 9781784993009
- 16 februari 2017
- 265 pagina's
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The factory in a garden is the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and outdoor recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices in Britain and the USA. Delving into company archives, the author questions how landscape design contributed to the history and culture of factories from the late nineteenth century. She questions the integrity of industrialists who used gardens and gardening as forms of social engineering, control and promotion and suggests that today’s domesticated and ‘playful’ office landscapes are created in the same spirit as those in the early twentieth century.
The book reveals new insights into the ‘special relationship’ between British and American industrialists as they shaped their production facilities in the Progressive Era. Factory gardens and parks contributed significantly to employee welfare policies and to wider social changes in ways that historians have not yet acknowledged, including the sports and leisure revolution, women’s employment, public health, gardening and suburban development.
The factory in a garden makes an important contribution to the topical debate on the health and well-being of society and provides a historical context for many contemporary concerns about the quality of life at work, how we maintain access to open space and how gardening need not be restricted to private gardens or municipal allotments, but can take place in unconventional places. This book will appeal to practitioners, students and lecturers involved in British and American landscape, cultural and social history and all those interested in the history of gardens and gardening.
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.
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- 16 februari 2017
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- Hoofdauteur
- Helena Chance
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- Christopher Breward
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- Christopher Breward
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- Manchester Univ Pr
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