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The factory in a garden
A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital ageStudies in Design and Material Culture 1. Aufl.
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124,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 28.02.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526112989 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 280 |
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Beschreibungen
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.
This book aims to explore the designed landscapes associated with factories and corporations in the UK and US created since the industrial revolution. It is largely historical, focusing on the period between 1890 and 1930 but it comes right up to date with initiatives such as secret gardens and vegetable allotments at the London Google offices.
Introduction
1. 'The pleasant manufactory'
2. From model factory to modern factory
3. 'The Factory in a Garden'/'The Garden in a Factory'
4. 'Happy healthy workers are the world's best': factory landscapes, leisure and the model employee
5. Designing the company Arcadia
6. 'The Most Beautiful Factory in the World': the power of the garden image
7. Factory gardens and parks: profits or perks?
8. From factory gardens to 'connected gardens'
Select gazetteer: company gardens and parks, <i>c.</i>1750-<i>c.</i>1960 and offices and office parks with significant landscaping, 1970-2015
Index
1. 'The pleasant manufactory'
2. From model factory to modern factory
3. 'The Factory in a Garden'/'The Garden in a Factory'
4. 'Happy healthy workers are the world's best': factory landscapes, leisure and the model employee
5. Designing the company Arcadia
6. 'The Most Beautiful Factory in the World': the power of the garden image
7. Factory gardens and parks: profits or perks?
8. From factory gardens to 'connected gardens'
Select gazetteer: company gardens and parks, <i>c.</i>1750-<i>c.</i>1960 and offices and office parks with significant landscaping, 1970-2015
Index
Helena Chance is Reader in History and Theory of Design at Buckinghamshire New University
<i>The factory in a garden</i> is the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and outdoor recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices in Britain and the USA. Delving into company archives, the author questions how landscape design contributed to the history and culture of factories from the late nineteenth century. She questions the integrity of industrialists who used gardens and gardening as forms of social engineering, control and promotion and suggests that today’s domesticated and ‘playful’ office landscapes are created in the same spirit as those in the early twentieth century.
The book reveals new insights into the ‘special relationship’ between British and American industrialists as they shaped their production facilities in the Progressive Era. Factory gardens and parks contributed significantly to employee welfare policies and to wider social changes in ways that historians have not yet acknowledged, including the sports and leisure revolution, women’s employment, public health, gardening and suburban development.
<i>The factory in a garden</i> makes an important contribution to the topical debate on the health and well-being of society and provides a historical context for many contemporary concerns about the quality of life at work, how we maintain access to open space and how gardening need not be restricted to private gardens or municipal allotments, but can take place in unconventional places. This book will appeal to practitioners, students and lecturers involved in British and American landscape, cultural and social history and all those interested in the history of gardens and gardening.
The book reveals new insights into the ‘special relationship’ between British and American industrialists as they shaped their production facilities in the Progressive Era. Factory gardens and parks contributed significantly to employee welfare policies and to wider social changes in ways that historians have not yet acknowledged, including the sports and leisure revolution, women’s employment, public health, gardening and suburban development.
<i>The factory in a garden</i> makes an important contribution to the topical debate on the health and well-being of society and provides a historical context for many contemporary concerns about the quality of life at work, how we maintain access to open space and how gardening need not be restricted to private gardens or municipal allotments, but can take place in unconventional places. This book will appeal to practitioners, students and lecturers involved in British and American landscape, cultural and social history and all those interested in the history of gardens and gardening.
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