Entrepreneurs, Manufactories and Small Industrial Communities, 1850-1914
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- Author(s) Crouch, Patrick J
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 2010
- Publisher University of Leicester
- Place Published Leicester
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- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
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Library:
- Name Leicester University Library
- City Leicester
- County Leicestershire
- Country England
- Postcode LE1 9QD
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Study of relatively small industrial company communities based on four case studies, viz: Samuel Courtauld & Co, Halstead, Essex; R Hunt & Co Ltd, Earls Colne, Essex; D Gurteen & Sons Ltd, Haverhill, Suffolk; and Richard Garrett & Co Ltd, Leiston, Suffolk, which are compared and contrasted with other communities. The study is linked to the entrepreneurial success of the family owned firms involved