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A readable, reasonably concise history of a large corporation, focused primarily on the philosophy of management and corporate objectives during its early years of growth and development.
A readable, reasonably concise history of a large corporation, focused primarily on the philosophy of management and corporate objectives during its early years of growth and development.
The romance of rubber by John Martin describes the United States Rubber Company as the largest rubber manufacturer in the world. He established the success story of crude rubber supremacy by Wickham, who might be called the father of plantation rubber. He further discusses the impact of Charles Goodyear, a man responsible for making rubber useful for the Americans. It's a lovely story of the American rubber industry.
Here are the memoirs of a modern industrial enterprise--an intimate business history that is part of the pageant of America's history, giving us a richer understanding of the greatness and glory of our country. As the first fifty years of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company coincided with the halfway mark of the twentieth century, they spanned the wonderful period of change from horse-and-buggy days to the automotive era. What were the creative forces at work? What did they achieve in terms of public service? The Firestone Story narrates the flow of events in absorbing detail.
An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.
The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. As this history details, many of the great rubber barons--Charles Goodyear, Harvey Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, F.A. Seiberling--found themselves or their companies in bankruptcy courts. Fortunately, the industry has always proven as elastic as its product. From the early search for an American location to process the rubber of the tropics to the collapse of the industry, this is the story of rubber in America.