The Columbia Conserve and the Committee of Four
by Hapgood, Norman
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
[Indianapolis?]: n.pub, 1934. Pamphlet. 111p., staplebound pamphlet, covers mildly worn and smudged with small corner chip. William P. Hapgood established the Columbia Conserve Company and instituted an employee ownership program in 1917. After years of success, the impact of the Great Depression was severe, and the company undertook reforms that some of the workers, represented by the Committee of Four, criticized as infringements on democratic control. Norman Hapgood, a brother of the founder, here argues that those steps were necessary to keep the firm in business, and points to rising profits as evidence of their success. 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.".
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 291166
- Title
- The Columbia Conserve and the Committee of Four
- Author
- Hapgood, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- n.pub
- Place of Publication
- [Indianapolis?]
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- Labor - American; 1930S; Indiana;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..