Main entry:

Chance, Helena, 1957- author.

Title & Author:

The factory in a garden : a history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age / Helena Chance.

Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xiii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Series:

Studies in design & material culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-255) and index.
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, c.1750-c.1960 and offices and office parks with significant landscaping, 1970-2015.

Summary:

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.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

ISBN:

9781784993009 (hbk.)
178499300X (hbk.)
(ePub ebook)
9781526112989
(PDF ebook)
9781526112972

Subject:

Park, Thomas 1759-1834
Gardens Great Britain History 19th century.
Gardens United States History 19th century.
Factories Design and construction.
Landscape gardening.
Industrial welfare.
Architecture landscape.
Gardening garden design.
Usines Conception et construction.
Jardins Architecture.
Service social dans l'industrie.
landscape gardening.
Gardens.
Arbeitnehmer
Garten
Soziale Wohlfahrt
Unternehmen
Great Britain.
United States.
Großbritannien
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Studies in design and material culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297107
Call No.: BIB 243415
Status: Available