Reminiscences of Gerard Swope : oral history, 1955.

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Reminiscences of Gerard Swope : oral history, 1955.

Family, youth and education; early work in Chicago; Hull House; work for Western Electric; General George Goethals and the Division of Purchase, Storage and Traffic, 1918; International General Electric.

Miscellaneous papers relaing to oral history.

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Western electric company

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The Western Electric Company was a subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. The firm manufactured a wide variety of telephone equipment at its Hawthorne Works in Chicago, Illinois. A notable series of worker efficiency experiments known as the Hawthorne Studies were staged at the plant between 1924 and 1933. From the description of Photograph album, 1925. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 52815587 From the description of Western Electric Com...

Swope, Gerard, 1872-1957

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Electrical engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Gerard Swope : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735130 ...

Phillips, Harlan B.

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