Company Towns of the Bata Concern
History – Cases – Architecture
Edited by Ondrej Sevecek Edited by Martin Jemelka
Paperback (Published)
(April 2013)
ISBN: 9783515103763
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $98.00
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During the interwar years, the footwear industry was confronted with similarly revolutionary changes and processes to those in the automobile industry which tend to be associated with the name of Henry Ford. Their major vehicle became the originally Czechoslovak enterprise of the Bata siblings, which, during the first decades of the twentieth century, grew into a gigantic concern with global reach. Seventeen researchers from Europe and North America trace the fascinating story of the Bata concern, a substantive chapter of which from the end of the 1920s became the establishment of company towns. From various perspectives, they focus their attention on this unique model of industrial organization which was discussed widely in its time and which in retrospect can be considered one of the true pinnacles of private capitalist urban planning in the first half of the twentieth century.
Ondrej sevecek is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic specializing in twentieth-century economic and social history. His research focuses on company towns, the formation of multinational corporations, and Fordism. Martin Jemelka is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences, VsB – Technical University of Ostrava. Currently, he is a researcher at the Centre for Economic and Social History at Ostrava University in Ostrava. He specializes in social and religious history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cultural and regional history, the history of everydayness, and historic demography.
- Edited by Ondrej Sevecek
- Edited by Martin Jemelka
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