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- Title
Contradictions of Corporate Benevolence: Industrial Libraries in the Southern Textile Industry, 1920-1945.
- Authors
Dredge, Bart
- Abstract
The article examines the tension between welfare benevolence and the subordination of industrial workers by focusing on industrial libraries in the southern textile industry of the U.S. from 1920 to 1945. In line with the aim of textile officials to create obedient, passive and loyal workers they established company libraries and reading rooms. The textile mill industrialists were also convinced that company libraries helped in their efforts to shape and stabilize the workforce. It relates the motive of textile executive Lewis Parker in educating workers.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; UNITED States; CORPORATE libraries; TEXTILE industry; BENEVOLENCE; SUBORDINATION (Psychology); PERSONNEL management; EMPLOYEE loyalty; PARKER, Lewis
- Publication
Libraries & the Cultural Record, 2008, Vol 43, Issue 3, p308
- ISSN
1932-4855
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lac.0.0035