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- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0875803369
ISBN-13
9780875803364
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43747269
Product Key Features
Book Title
John Deere Story : a Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Corporate & Business History, Business
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-023584
TitleLeading
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Reviews
[An] outstanding study in business history... particularly illuminating on the close relations that bound industry to agriculture during the pioneering period of settlement in the Midwest. It is an enthralling story., "A most useful addition to the literature on Deere and Company, and the environment in which the business operated."-- Agricultural History Review "Lucidly written ... an interesting picture of John and Charles in a concise and very readable book."-- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "[An] outstanding study in business history ... particularly illuminating on the close relations that bound industry to agriculture during the pioneering period of settlement in the Midwest. It is an enthralling story."-- Indiana Magazine of History, Lucidly written... an interesting picture of John and Charles in a concise and very readable book., "A most useful addition to the literature on Deere and Company, and the environment in which the business operated."- Agricultural History Review "Lucidly written ... an interesting picture of John and Charles in a concise and very readable book."- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "[An] outstanding study in business history ... particularly illuminating on the close relations that bound industry to agriculture during the pioneering period of settlement in the Midwest. It is an enthralling story."- Indiana Magazine of History, ""A most useful addition to the literature on Deere and Company, and the environment in which the business operated."--Agricultural History Review "Lucidly written... an interesting picture of John and Charles in a concise and very readable book."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "[An] outstanding study in business history... particularly illuminating on the close relations that bound industry to agriculture during the pioneering period of settlement in the Midwest. It is an enthralling story."--Indiana Magazine of History", A most useful addition to the literature on Deere and Company, and the environment in which the business operated.
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
338.7/6817631/0922 B
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Young and Enterprising 2. John Deere, The Plow King 3. C.H. Deere's "Celebrated Moline Plows" 4. Raging Abolitionist 5. The Case of "The Moline Plow" 6. Supply and Demand 7. "'Tis Purely Business" 8. Father Deere 9. The Plow Trust 10. Sick Forever Epilogue Appendix?Time Line Notes Works Cited Index
Synopsis
Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing debt in New England in the 1830s, set up shop in a little town on the Illinois frontier. There, in response to farmers' struggles, he designed a new plow that cut through the impervious prairie sod and lay open the rich, heavy soil for planting. The demand for his polished steel plow convinced him to specialize in farm implements. In the decades before the Civil War, John Deere envisioned a company supplying midwestern farmers with reliable, affordable equipment. He used only high quality, imported steel and resisted pressure to raise prices. At the same time, he won respectful affection from his employees by working alongside them on the shop floor. Upon taking the helm in the 1860s, John's only surviving son, Charles, expanded the Moline factories to increase production, started branch houses in major midwestern cities to speed distribution, and began to transform the company into a modern corporation. The transformation didn't come without difficulties however: Charles found himself battling the Grange, facing threats of labor unions and strikes led by his own employees, and enduring patent suits and blatant thefts of product designs and advertising., Today, John Deere is remembered--some say mistakenly--as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing debt in New England in the 1830s, set up shop in a little town on the Illinois frontier. There, in response to farmers' struggles, he designed a new plow that cut through the impervious prairie sod and lay open the rich, heavy soil for planting. The demand for his polished steel plow convinced him to specialize in farm implements. In the decades before the Civil War, John Deere envisioned a company supplying midwestern farmers with reliable, affordable equipment. He used only high quality, imported steel and resisted pressure to raise prices. At the same time, he won respectful affection from his employees by working alongside them on the shop floor. Upon taking the helm in the 1860s, John's only surviving son, Charles, expanded the Moline factories to increase production, started branch houses in major midwestern cities to speed distribution, and began to transform the company into a modern corporation. The transformation didn't come without difficulties however: Charles found himself battling the Grange, facing threats of labor unions and strikes led by his own employees, and enduring patent suits and blatant thefts of product designs and advertising., Today, John Deere is remembered?some say mistakenly?as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing debt in New England in the 1830s, set up shop in a little town on the Illinois frontier. There, in response to farmers' struggles, he designed a new plow that cut through the impervious prairie sod and lay open the rich, heavy soil for planting. The demand for his polished steel plow convinced him to specialize in farm implements. In the decades before the Civil War, John Deere envisioned a company supplying midwestern farmers with reliable, affordable equipment. He used only high quality, imported steel and resisted pressure to raise prices. At the same time, he won respectful affection from his employees by working alongside them on the shop floor. Upon taking the helm in the 1860s, John's only surviving son, Charles, expanded the Moline factories to increase production, started branch houses in major midwestern cities to speed distribution, and began to transform the company into a modern corporation. The transformation didn't come without difficulties however: Charles found himself battling the Grange, facing threats of labor unions and strikes led by his own employees, and enduring patent suits and blatant thefts of product designs and advertising.
LC Classification Number
HD9486.U6D432 2005
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