Pepperell's Progress : History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945
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Title
Pepperell's Progress : History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945
Description
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.
Creator
Knowlton, Evelyn H. P.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Date
1948
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
1844-1945; New England
Contribution Form
Zotero
Call Number
Num Pages
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)