You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town Sayen Jamie
A local story with profound national implications, now available as a paperback with a new preface by the author.Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the bottom line. Friction between workers…
Specifikacia You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town Sayen Jamie
A local story with profound national implications, now available as a paperback with a new preface by the author.Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the bottom line. Friction between workers and management. Hostile takeovers at the hands of avaricious and unaccountable multinational interests. The story of America's industrial decline is all too familiar--and yet, somehow, still hard to fathom. Jamie Sayen spent years interviewing residents of Groveton, New Hampshire, about the century-long saga of their company town. The community's paper mill had been its economic engine since the early twentieth century. Purchased and revived by local owners in the postwar decades, the mill merged with Diamond International in 1968. It fell victim to Anglo-French financier James Goldsmith's hostile takeover in 1982, then suffered through a series of owners with no roots in the