A Place To Live And Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works And The Tacony Community Of Philadelphia

University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Hardcover. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, usual stamps & markings, etc. dustjacket taped to covers, ID to lower spine.). blue boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xix, 231 pgs bw illustrations. grey & blue illustrated dustjacket w/ red printing; plastic cover. From a college library. No removal stamps on due date card. Pages clean; remains tightly bound. "A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. The book provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful family-owned businesses, from its modest beginnings in 1840 to the 1940s, when Disston products were known worldwide, to the sale and demise of the company in the postwar years. Henry Disston, however, not only built a factory; he also shaped Tacony, the town in northeastern Philadelphia where the workers lived. The book describes the company's interdependence with the community and profiles the lifestyle that grew out of Disston's paternalistic blueprint for Tacony."--Amazon.