Precision Valley; The Machine Tool Companies of Springfield, Vermont

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Vintage Hardcover with DJ, First Edition, 1959, Prentice Hall, 274 pages. Very good+, in a Good+ DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to light gray cloth boards with white and red titles - corners sharp. Moderate shelf/edge wear, several closed tears (and a few wrinkles to the rear DJ) to original DJ - now in mylar. 10 chapters, 2 appendices, notes and index. Nice history of the Machine Tool Industry in Springfield, Vermont. Focuses on three major companies: Jones and Lamson Machine Company, Fellows Gear Shaper Company and the Bryant Chucking Grinder Company. Even covers the heavy machine tool purchases to the Soviet Government in the 1930s as well as those to Japan later in the same decade. Written by Wayne G. Broehl, Jr., historian and faculty member of Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. The author or co-author of eight books in the field of business history, management theory, and economic development. His special interest has been the corporation's role in society, and he has studied and written extensively on the role corporate management teams play in the American business scene. His award-winning book The Molly Maguires chronicled the saga of an Irish secret society in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the 19th century, as early unions interacted in traumatic ways with large-scale rail and coal companies. Very Scarce in Hardcover. No other copies online.OCLC#-43862344. A very handsome First Edition in a flawed but respectable DJ. LOC SSE-04. N° de ref. del artículo 240709008

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