Homes For Workmen: A Presentation of Leading Examples of Industrial Community Development - Couverture souple

Southern Pine Association

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0548837325 ISBN 13 : 9780548837320

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The purpose of this publication is to present certain general and specific facts concerning industrial housing which may be of value in directing those interested in arriving at correct conclusions as to how best to solve this problem in their own communities. DIFFICULT though insistent problem confronting industry today is that of providing proper living conditions for workmen and their families, to insure the adequacy, stability and efficiency of labor. At hundreds of places there is need for more houses and better houses. In some centers where abnormal development has taken place the housing shortage is so acute that factory output cannot be brought up to the required volume. Community housing enterprises, undertaken along proper lines, will avoid the methods of speculative builders, and will not find their incentive in the earning of large dividends and profits to investors. While industrial housing projects should, and will if properly managed, yield a return on the investment, those financing housing companies will derive their principal gain indirectly through general community betterment, which has a distinct and tangible value. The manufacturer will, of course, be the principal beneficiary, and will accordingly bear the greater part of the housing burden, if there must be a burden. While the benefits to the manufacturer are quite generally recognized, the community benefits derived from a well-housed and, therefore, contented and self-respecting labor element, have rarely been given proper consideration in this country. An established industrial community can have no better asset than an adequate supply of well-built, attractive homes, for the reason that it is to that town or city in which the labor supply is stable, and its standards of morality and industry in consequence high, that the manufacturer seeking industrial location instinctively turns
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548837325
• ISBN 13: 9780548837320
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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