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Wilcox, Kristina.

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Factory town in transition: A community's reaction to change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Factory town in transition: A community's reaction to change./
Author:	Wilcox, Kristina.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-08A(E).
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3688524
ISBN:	9781321671988

Factory town in transition: A community's reaction to change.
Wilcox, Kristina.

Factory town in transition: A community's reaction to change. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.L.S.)--Georgetown University, 2015.

This is the story of my hometown of Endicott, New York, for over a century a factory town built by the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company and later dominated by International Business Machines (IBM). My research addresses the fundamental question of how the treatment of these employees transformed over time, and how workers felt in return about IBM and its management, the impact of globalization on their jobs and personal lives, and how their community and families changed. This work is important because it not only enriches the history of the region, which has long been dominated by work on Endicott-Johnson, but addresses corporate behavior, employee expectations and the shifting social contract from the perspective of the ultimate "insiders" -- the employees themselves.

ISBN: 9781321671988Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

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