Pepperell's Progress : History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945

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Pepperell's Progress : History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945

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An organizational, corporate, and industrial history of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, whose Boston-run mills operated in the coastal city of Biddeford, Maine, and in the other industrial towns of Lewiston, Maine, Laconia, New Hampshire, and Lowell and Fall River, Massachusetts. Broadly, a collection of the history of business procedures with only slight emphases on the lives of Pepperell's workers. A large argument claiming Pepperell's unprecedented positive impact on American industry and economy, and a fact- and record-heavy examination of the business offices that propelled the company into worth.

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Knowlton, Evelyn H. P.

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Date

1948

Language

en

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1844-1945; New England

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Zotero

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511

Place

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Series

Harvard Studies in Business History

Series Number

8

URL

Pepperell's Progress @ Google Books
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3111045 (review of the text from the Harvard Bulletin of the Business Historical Society)

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