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Some Thoughts on the Early Labor Policy of the Waltham Watch Co.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

C. W. Moore
C. W. Moore
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Harvard University
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In this day, when insecure living and working conditions have come to be recognized as a great problem in social security, it is interesting to see how one industrial firm attacked that problem almost a century ago. The firm was the Waltham Watch Co., and the executive responsible for its labor management was Aaron Dennison. The watch company was one of three large manufacturing enterprises started by Dennison. The others were the Dennison Manufacturing Co., of Framingham, Massachusetts, and the Dennison Watch Case Co., of Birmingham, England.

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Research Article
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Business History Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1939 , pp. 25 - 29
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1939

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References

page 26 note 1 Marsh, E. A., “History of Early Watchmaking in America” (manuscript, about 1890), pp. 8–9.Google Scholar

page 26 note 2 Anonymous “History” (manuscript, about 1900), p. 22.

page 28 note 1 Swinton, John, A Model Factory in a Model City (New York, 1888), p. 6.Google Scholar

page no 29 note 1 The Waltham Watch Co. was reorganized and put on a sound basis by F. C. Dumaine after this period of mismanagement.