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24 Rhodes describes the debate over the bomb’s use in The Making of the Atomic Bomb, pp. 617-649; Stimson’s diary is quoted in Nichols, The Road to Trinity, p. 165.
25 Robinson, The Oak Ridge Story, pp. 106-107; “Atom Bombs Made in 3 Hidden ‘Cities’”; Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City, p. 67; Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, pp. 734-735; Hales, Atomic Spaces, pp. 356-359.
26 Johnson and Jackson, City Behind a Fence, pp. 167, 185, 204-205; Robinson, The Oak Ridge Story, pp. 49, 101, 128-129; Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City, pp. 70-71, 100, 131; Daniel Lang, “The Atomic City,” New Yorker, September 29, 1945; “Stopover at Oak Ridge: Atomic City Attracts Increasing Number of Drivers on Cross-Country Tours,” New York Times, October 14, 1951; “Nuclear Sites May Be Toxic in Perpetuity, Report Finds,” New York Times, August 8, 2000, p. A16; “Work on Weapons Affected Health, Government Says,” New York Times, July 15, 1999, p. A12; William Yardley, “No More Bomb-Making, but Work Aplenty,” New York Times, September 11, 2008; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Web site, www.ornl.gov; Wikipedia entry for Oak Ridge, Tennessee, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge,_Tennessee.
27 Gilbert Millstein, “No Atomic Jitters in the Atomic Capital,” New York Times Magazine, November 25, 1951.
28 “National Briefing South: Tennessee: Nuclear Weapons Plant to Reopen,” New York Times, March 15, 2003.
Chapter 8: A World Transformed
1 Futurama sound track and film at www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cO9X4NMb4.
2 Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (New York: Doubleday, 1991), p. 26; Don Graf, Convenience for Research: Buildings for the Bell Telephone Laboratory Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey (New York: Voorhees, Walker, Foley and Smith, Architects and Engineers, 1944); Jeremy Bernstein, Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984), pp. viii, 7-9, 173; David W. Dunlap, “The Office as Architectural Touchstone,” New York Times, March 2, 2008; Truman A. Hartshorn, “Industrial/Office Parks: A New Look For the City,” Journal of Geography 62 (March 1973): 33.
3 William H. Whyte, City: Rediscovering the Center (New York: Doubleday, 1988), pp. 290-306, 341.
4 FedEx’s facility is described in Barbara E. Hampton, “Why Corporate Campuses Make Sense in All Economic Conditions,” Site Selection (January 2002): 49.
5 “Destination: Kohler” Web site, www.destinationkohler.com/hotel/tac/tac_index.html.
6 Walter H. Uphoff, Kohler on Strike: Thirty Years of Conflict (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966), pp. 3-28, 35-95, 124-158, 201, 257-316, and passim; “Labor Notes: What Is News” and Gunnar Mickelson, “The Kohler Myth Dies,” The Nation, August 15, 1934; “Kohler’s Paternalism Policy Fails to Head Off Labor Trouble,” BusinessWeek , May 24, 1952; for an example of Herbert Kohler’s public statements see the widely circulated Can a Free Economy Tolerate Union Violence? An Address Given by Herbert V. Kohler, President of Kohler Co., Given Before the Economic Club of Detroit, February 25, 1957 (Kohler, WI: Kohler Co., n.d.).
7 “Kohler Appeals NLRB Order to Reinstate Most Strikers; Union Asks More Rehiring,” Wall Street Journal, August 29, 1960; “Kohler, Union Agree on First Pact Since Strike Began in 1954,” Wall Street Journal, October 1, 1962; “Kohler’s 11-Year Dispute with UAW Terminated by Pay, Pension Accord,” Wall Street Journal, December 20, 1965.
8 “Grandson of Founder of Kohler Co. Named Its Chairman and Chief,” Wall Street Journal, June 30, 1972; “Golf Journal: The Way a Golf Trip Ought to Be,” Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2006; “Golf Journal: The Vanity Project for Golf Fanatics,” Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2006; “How Much Is That Faucet in the Honeymoon Suite? Kohler, Cuisinart, Viking Step Up Marketing Efforts Via Company-Owned Resorts,” Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2005; “Kohler Seeks to Expand His Course-Building Horizons,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 4, 2007.
9 Scott Kilman, “Family Squabble Brews at Kohler Over Control,” Wall Street Journal, March 23, 1998; John H. Christy and Shlomo Reifman, “The Importance of Being Private,” Forbes, November 29, 2004.
10 See Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry (New York: Basic Books, 1982); “Travel: Vacation Paradise on a Factory Floor,” Wall Street Journal, July 7, 1995; Hershey information is available at the company’s Web site, www.hersheys.com/discover/museum.asp
11 A good description of Oak Ridge sights may be found at http://physics-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/tour_the_secret_city_of_oak_ridge; Jeff Schlegel, “Unspoiled Nature in Shadow of Nuclear Site,” New York Times, September 4, 2009.
12 A blueprint of the Google installation accompanies Ginger Strand, “Keyword: Evil,” Harper’s Magazine, March 2008; John Foley, “Google’s Data Center Strategy Revealed . . . At the Rotary Club,” Information Week’s Google Weblog, November 30, 2007, www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/googles_data_ce.html; Randall Stross, Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know (New York: Free Press, 2008), pp. 55-59; Kathy Gray, “Port Deal with Google to Create Jobs,” The Dalles Chronicle, February 16, 2005; John Markoff and Saul Hansell, “Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power,” New York Times, June 8, 2006. In addition to The Dalles facility, other Google data centers are near Lenoir, North Carolina; Goose Creek, South Carolina; Pryor, Oklahoma; and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
13 Peter Burrows, “Servers as High as an Elephant’s Eye,” BusinessWeek, June 12, 2006; Strand, “Keyword: Evil.”
14 Press release at www.stirlingenergy.com/pdf/2008-06-30.pdf; www.brightsourceenergy.com; Matthew L. Wald, “Two Large Solar Power Plants Are Planned in California,” New York Times, August 15, 2008.
15 Kate Galbraith, “Schwarzenegger Orders Increase in Renewable Energy Use,” New York Times, September 16, 2009; John Carey, “Solar’s Day in the Sun,” BusinessWeek , October 15, 2007.
16 http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/28/wind-jobs-outstrip-the-coal-industry; Rebecca Smith, “Where the Jobs Are: As the Renewable-power Industry Takes Off, So Does the Demand for Green-Collar Workers,” Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2008; Abengoa’s Web site is at www.abengoasolar.com/corp/web/en/abengoa_solar_ist/our_projects/arizona/index.
Conclusion: A Tale of Two Cities
1 Printed as preface to Nathan Appleton, Introduction of the Power Loom and Origin of Lowell (Lowell, MA: B. H. Penhallow, 1858).
2 Milton Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
3 Rosabeth Moss Kanter, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good (New York: Crown Business, 2009).
4 The Stanford journal may be found online at www.ssireview.org; the Momentum conferences are described at www.momentumconference.org/index.php?id=1159; Wharton’s social-entrepreneurship efforts are described at http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/social/centers-initiatives.cfm
5 Michael Kinsley, ed., Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Business Leaders (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009); Nancy F. Koehn, “The Time Is Right for Creative Capitalism,” Harvard Business School Web site at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5988.html.
PHOTO CREDITS
1. Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell, Massachusetts
2. Center for Lowell History
3. Chicago History Museum
4. New York Public Library
5. Hershey Community Archives
6. Hershey Community Archives
7. Hardy Green
8. Ben Shahn, U.S. Library of Congress
9. Lewis Hine, New York Public Library
10. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
11. Hinson History Room, Kannapolis Branch, Cabarrus County Public Library
12. Hinson History Room, Kannapolis Branch, Cabarrus County Public Library
13. Hinson History Room, Kannapolis Branch, Cabarrus County Publi
c Library
14. Lewis Hine, New York Public Library
15. New York Public Library
16. Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest
17. Bartlesville Area History Museum
18. Bartlesville Area History Museum
19. Kaiser Permanente Heritage Archive
20. Ann Rosener, U.S. Office of War Information
21. New York Public Library
22. Ed Wescott, National Archives and Records Administration
23. Postcard produced by Standard Souvenirs & Novelties Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee
INDEX
Abengoa Solar
Adamic, Louis
Advertising
AFL. See American Federation of Labor
Agriprocessors
Ajo, Az.
African Americans
Alamogordo, N.M.
Alcoa Inc.
Alcoa, Tn.
Alcohol use
Aliquippa, Pa.
Allen, Charles
Allis-Chalmers Corp.
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union
Amana Co.
Amarillo, Tx.
America. See United States
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
American Flint Glass Workers Union
American Medical Assn.
American Railway Union (ARU)
American Smelting and Refining Co.
American Wind Industry Assn.
Ammons, Elias
Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
Anderson, Anna
AOH. See Ancient Order of Hibernians
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Apollo Iron and Steel Co.
Apollo, Pa.
Appalachia
Appleton, Nathan
Armour & Co.
ARU. See American Railway Union
AT&T
Atlantic Monthly
Atomic Energy Commission
Austin, Mn.
Automated Electric Washer
Automobile industry
Babbitt, Bruce
Bagley, Sarah
Baker, George F.
Baker, Josephine L.
Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency
Barrett, Nathan F.
Bartlesville, Ok.
Beaumont, Tx.
Bechtel, W. A.
Bedford, Clay
Bell, Tom
Bellamy, Edward
Bell Labs
Beman, Solon Spencer
Benham, Ky.
Bent, Luther
Berti, Mel
Bethlehem Steel
Bigelow, E. Victor
Bigelow Carpet
Bisbee, Az.
Blacks. See African Americans
Blair, David
Blair Mountain battle
BMW
Boal, Theodore Davis
Boesky, Ivan
Bohr, Niels
Boilermakers union
Boom Town (movie)
Boott, John
Boott, Kirk
Borger, A. P. “Ace,”
Borger, Tx.
Boston Associates
Boston Daily Times
Boston Manufacturing Co.
Boulder Dam
Braddock, Pa.
Brandeis, Louis
Branding
Brennan, John A.
Britain
Brody, David
Brookfield Village, Ca.
Brooklyn Flint Glass Works
Brooks, Carl
Brophy, John
Bryan, William Jennings
Buckburnett, Tx.
Buffington, Eugene
Burlington Industries Inc.
Bush, Vannevar
Business Week
Butte, Mt.
Byrnes, James F.
Cabot, Charles M.
Calder, Alexander
Camp, William Martin
Cannon, Charles Albert
Cannon, David
Cannon, James William
Cannon Mills Co.
Capitalism
Cargill Inc.
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie Steel
Carter, George L.
Cash, W. J.
Catholic Church, Catholicism
Caterpillar Inc.
Caudill, Harry M.
Cedar Rapids, Ia.
CFI. See Colorado Fuel and Iron
Chafin, Don
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Child labor
Chocolate making
Chicago Tribune
Chrysler Corp.
CIO. See Congress of Industrial Organization
The City: Hope of Democracy (Howe)
Cities Service Oil Co.
Civil War, U. S.
Cleveland, Grover
Clinton Engineer District. See Oak Ridge, Tn.
Coal and Iron Police
Coal-mining towns
beginning of
company stores and
formula for town life
labor in
law enforcement and
living conditions in
pay and use of scrip
race and racism in
union organization and
working conditions in
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Colorado Fuel and Iron (CFI)
Colorado Industrial Plan
Columbus, In.
Company campuses. See corporate campuses
Company stores
Company towns
coal-mining towns
company stores and
copper-mining towns
corporate campuses
definition
exploitationville model of
high-tech companies
meatpacking towns
shipbuilding towns
steel-mill towns
textile-mill towns
timber towns
tourism and travel and
utopian model of
war-industry towns
Company unions. See Employee Representation Plans
ConAgra Foods Inc.
Conant, James B.
Concord, N.C.
Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)
Conoco Inc.
Consolidation Coal Co.
Consumer economy
Continental Airlines
Coolidge, John
Copper-mining towns
Corning, N.Y.
Corning Glass Works and Corning Inc.
Corporate branding
Corporate campuses
Corporate welfarism
Corporations and Operatives (“Citizen of Lowell”)
Coupland, Douglas
Coxe, Tench
Crawford, Margaret
Creative Capitalism (Kinsley)
Cudahy Packing Co.
Cummins Engine Co.
Daimler
Dalton, Robert
Daly, Marcus
Das Kapital (Marx)
Dearborn, Mi.
Debevoise & Plimpton
Debs, Eugene
Defense Department, U. S.
Democratic Party, Democrats
Depew, Chauncey M.
Detroit, Mi.
Dickens, Charles
Discrimination. See Race, racism
Docena, Al.
Dos Passos, John
Douglas Aircraft Co.
Douglas, Az.
Douglas, James
Douglas, Walter
Dow Corning Corp.
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Dreiser, Theodore
Drinking. See Alcohol use
Dubuque, Ia.
DuPont Co.
Earth First!
Edison, Thomas Alva
Education
Einstein, Albert
Eliot, Charles
Elizabethton, Tn.
Ellis, Frank
Ely,
Richard T.
Employee Representation Plans
at Bethlehem Steel
in coal industry,
at Colorado Fuel & Iron
at Kohler Co.
at U.S. Steel
Energy Department, U.S.
Engels, Friedrich
Environment
Evans, Oliver
Evarts, Ky.
Fabry, Joseph
Fairfield, Al.
Federal Express
Federal Housing Authority
Federal Steel
Fieldcrest Mills Inc.
Firestone Park, Oh.
Fisher, Donald
Flint Glass Workers Union
Flint, Mi.
Ford, Clyde M.
Ford, Henry
Ford, Tennessee Ernie
Ford Motor Co.
Forestville, Ca.. See Scotia, Ca.
Fort Worth, Tx.
Fortune
Francis, James
Frankfurter, Felix
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
Frick, Henry Clay
Friedman, Milton
Fulton, Robert
Futurama
F. W. Woolworth & Co.
Galey, John
Galveston, Tx.
Gambling
Garden Cities movement
Garfield, Sidney
Garland, Jim
Gary, Elbert H.
Gary, In.
Gastonia, N.C.
Gates, Bill
Gates, John W. “Bet-a-Million,”
General Electric Co.
General Motors (GM)
George A. Hormel & Co.
Georgetown, Ky.
Glassmaking
Glenn pool in Oklahoma
GM. See General Motors
Goodhue, Bertram
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Google server complex
Googleplex
Gowen, Franklin
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P)
Great Depression
Great Southwest Industrial Park
Greer, S.C.
Groves, Leslie R.
Guffey, James
Gulf Oil Corp.
Gunning, Sarah Ogan
Gunther, John
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton Corp.
Hammett, Dashiell
Hanford, Wa.
Harding, Warren G.
Harlan County, Ky.
Harlan Miners Speak (Dos Passos)
Harrington, Michael
Hatcher, Richard G.