The factory in a garden : a history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age /

The factory in a garden : a history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age /

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Author / Creator:	Chance, Helena, 1957- author.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xiii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in design & material culture Studies in design and material culture.
Subject:	Gardens -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Gardens -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Factories -- Design and construction. Gardens. Industrial welfare. Landscape gardening. Great Britain. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11027741

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ISBN:	9781784993009 178499300X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-255) and index.
Summary:	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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Call Number:	SB451.36.G7 C43 2017
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