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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in design and material culturePublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781784993009
  • 178499300X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB451.36.G7 C48 2017
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.--
List(s) this item appears in: Garden of Ideas
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB468 .C42 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 39352800165805
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-255) and index.

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.--

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