Hawthorne Works (Images of America) (Paperback)

Hawthorne Works (Images of America) By Dennis Schlagheck, Catherine Lantz Cover Image
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Discover the maufacturing plant that typifies the era when American industrial giants dominated the global economy and generations of blue-collar workers strived for a fair share of the American Dream.


A burgeoning town on the fringes of Chicago rose and fell with the successes of the Western Electric Company. For almost 90 years, the Hawthorne Works plant employed, educated, entertained, and defined the township of Cicero. As the manufacturing arm of Western Electric, Hawthorne contributed greatly to the prosperity and national defense of the United States. As the site of the controversial Hawthorne Studies of workplace motivation and behavior, the plant reconfigured business and social science models. A community within a community, Hawthorne had its own sports teams, social clubs, hospital, railroad yards, and savings and loan. At its peak, the works was the largest single-site employer in Illinois and one of the biggest manufacturing establishments in the country, second only to the Ford plant in Detroit.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781467111355
ISBN-10: 146711135X
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Publication Date: February 10th, 2014
Pages: 128
Language: English
Series: Images of America