Cat.No: 291163 The Columbia Conserve Company: an Experiment in Workers' Management and Ownership. William P. Hapgood.

The Columbia Conserve Company: an Experiment in Workers' Management and Ownership

Indianapolis: Columbia Conserve Company, 1934. Paperback. xi, 187p. paperback, mild handling wear to covers, interior clean; very good.

Hapgood established the Columbia Conserve Company and instituted an employee ownership program in 1917. For details of the company's unprecedented experiments in industrial democracy, its years of success, and its eventual schism and sale to a larger company, see Kim McQuaid’s 1976 article in Labor History, “Industry and the co-operative commonwealth: William P. Hapgood and the Columbia Conserve Company, 1917–1943.”.

Cat.No: 291163

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