Company Towns of the Bata Concern

History – Cases – Architecture

Ondrej Sevecek, Martin Jemelka

• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9783515105347
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

During the interwar years, the footwear industry was confronted with similarly revolutionary changes and processes to those in the automobile industry which tend to be associated with the name of Henry Ford. Their major vehicle became the originally Czechoslovak enterprise of the Ba'a siblings, which, during the first decades of the twentieth century, grew into a gigantic concern with global reach.

Seventeen researchers from Europe and North America trace the fascinating story of the Ba'a concern, a substantive chapter of which from the end of the 1920s became the establishment of company towns. From various perspectives, they focus their attention on this unique model of industrial organization which was discussed widely in its time and which in retrospect can be considered one of the true pinnacles of private capitalist urban planning in the first half of the twentieth century.

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
• II. REFLECTING ON BAŤA’S HISTORY
• III. BAŤA TOWNS – CASE STUDIES
• IV. ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
• LIST OF AUTHORS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• LIST OF ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVAL FONDS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• EDITORS’ NOTE
• INDEX OF NAMES
• INDEX OF LOCALITIES