The ultimate vacation : watching other people work : a history of Factory tours in America, 1880-1950 / by Allison C. Marsh

ABSTRACT
PREFACE: GREETINGS FROM... Acknowledgements
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
CHAPTER 1: GREETINGS FROM THE FACTORY FLOOR: A post card tour; What is a Factory tour?
CHAPTER 2: GREETINGS FROM TASTY PLACES: The Price of purity: A typical tour; Expanding markets; Cleanliness, Purity and Pasteur
Good Ketchup needs no drugs: A typical tour; Heinz's 57 varieties-lessons in advertising; The attack on Benzoate of soda
The Palace of Light and Beauty: A typical tour; Advertising the wonder; The happy family; Fair food
Food factories today
CHAPTER 3: GREETINGS FROM THE WAREHOUSE: Catalog tours
From Factory to family: A brief history; A typical tour; Factory tours outside the Factory Town; Touring Corporate Architecture
Walking through the wish book: A brief history of Sears; Processing an Order; Making, Packaging; and Distributing godos for sale; Assembling and packing an order; touring infraestructura; Painting the Big Book
The modern mail merchant
CHAPTER 4: GREETINGS FROM THE ASSEMBLY LINE: The world's greatest industrial planet: The birthplace of the Assembly Line: touring, Highland Park; Ford's paternalism; The move to River Rouge; Taking the Factory to the fair; Bringing, artist to th Factory
Blue prints and proving grounds
The Worker's voice
Where the rubber hits the Road
Touring Ford today
CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE: GREETINGS FROM THE GIFT SHOP: Who are the tourist? What are the tours?
What type of companies offer tours?
Regional economic development
Beyond York: Ten rules for tours
APPENDIX: GREETINGS FROM THE ARCHIVE: 20 words and picture: using post cards as primary sources
Now in 3-D: Stereoviews
Advertisements, cookbooks and catalogus
Taking on the tobacco industry: class actions law suits
eBay and oral history: new methodologies for collecting sources: process; results; analysis
SOURCES AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: CHAPTER 1: Greetings from the Factory floor; Primary sources; Contemporary literature; Secondary sources
Chapter 2: Greetings from tasty places: Primary sources; Contemporary sources; Secondary sources
CHAPTER 3: GREETINGS FROM THE WAREHOUSE: Primary sources; Secondary sources
CHAPTER 4: GREETINGS FROM THE ASSEMBLY LINE: Primary sources; Contemporary sources; Secondary sources
CONCLUSION: WISH YOU WERE HERE: Contemporary sources
EPILOGUE: GREETING FROM THE GIFT SHOP: Primary sources; Contemporary sources; Secondary sources
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