The Factory in a Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes by Helena Chance

March 17, 2017 adminBusiness Biographies Primers

By Helena Chance

after we take into consideration Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic generators' may perhaps come to mind - pictures of blackened structures and exhausted, exploited employees suffering in bad and ungodly stipulations. yet for a few staff this photo used to be faraway from the reality, and this is often the topic of 'The manufacturing unit in a backyard' which strains the historical past of a manufacturing facility gardens stream from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century similar in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The publication is the 1st research of its sort analyzing the improvement of parks, gardens, and outdoors relaxation amenities for factories in Britain and the United States as a version for the reshaping of the company surroundings within the twenty-first century. this can be additionally the 1st publication to provide a accomplished account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and activity to the background of liable capitalism and moral operating practices.

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