A01=Helena Chance
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Helena Chance
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AMG
Category=HBG
Category=HBTK
Category=KJW
Category=NHB
Category=NHTK
COP=United Kingdom
Corporate culture
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Factory
Garden
Health
Industry
Landscape
Landscape architecture
Language_English
PA=Available
Park
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
Recreation
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781784993009
- Weight: 821g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.
Helena Chance is Reader in History and Theory of Design at Buckinghamshire New University
