| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
The age of steel -- Providence, Paris, Chicago -- Spoke wheels, turning -- Death and succession -- Centralization -- "Clean the damned place out!" -- When peppermint creams meet steel -- "If i had known this was coming" -- "Don't we ever play a waltz" : the 1930s -- World War II: defense workers wanted -- War ends, another begins -- A people's capitalism -- Flying into the jet age -- Retooling -- An industrial eden -- Managerial capitalism and the gobal corporation -- Fenced in -- The longest strike -- Locked out |
| Summary |
"Brown & Sharpe employees produced and marketed measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery, and helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe contains the story of the Industrial Revolution in America, covering more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27, 2017) |
| Subject |
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company
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Machine-tool industry -- Rhode Island
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GAMES / Gambling / Sports
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SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects
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SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays
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SPORTS & RECREATION / History
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SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference
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TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports
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Machine-tool industry
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Rhode Island
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lubar, Steven, author of foreword
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Rhode Island Historical Society.
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| ISBN |
9781476629193 |
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1476629196 |
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