A Place to Live and Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia Format:Paperback Reading Level: 9

Reading Level: 9

Gertrude Stein

Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2018 pg

ISBN-13: 9780062853677

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A Place to Live and Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia Format:Paperback Reading Level: 9A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. The book provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful family owned businesses, from its modest beginnings in 1840 to the 1940s, when Disston products were known worldwide, to the