Quakers, business and industry / edited by: Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion.

Contributor(s): Angell, Stephen Ward, 1950- [editor] | Dandelion, Pink [editor] | Friends Association for Higher Education (U.S.)Material type: TextTextSeries: Quakers and the disciplines ; v.4Publication details: Longmeadow, MA : Philadelphia, PA: Full Media Services ; Friends Association for Higher Education, 2017 Description: xiv, 267 pages illustrations ; 23 cmSubject(s): Quaker businesspeople -- History | Quaker industrialists -- History | Business -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends | Society of Friends -- DoctrinesDDC classification:
Contents:
Factors supporting the rise of Quaker commerce / Andrew Fincham -- Quaker clockmakers / Tim Marshall -- George Bradshaw (1801-1853): publisher and compiler of railway timetables / Colin Mckenzie -- Joseph Wharton: American Hicksite Quaker "captain of industry" / Jean Mulhern and Cathy Pitzer -- The Rowntrees: tales from a chocolate family / Paul Chrystal -- Colonizer William Penn and engineer Herbert Hoover: how their business affected ther philanthropy and statesmanship / Stephen W. Angell -- The Birmingham Quaker business community 1800-1900 / Nicola Sleapwood -- Quaker business method: a contemporary decision-making process? / Nicholas Burton.
Summary: "This book focuses on the much vaunted reputation of Quakers in business and industry. It interrogates some of the myths about Quaker success and their reasons for engaging in commerce, offers case studies of key areas of business, and highlights some of the pioneers of industry. This volume also helps theorise key Quaker understandings of wealth-creation and explores some of the shifting patterns and possibilities that have emerged in the last century and a half."--Page 4 of cover.
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"A Friends Association for Higher Education book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Factors supporting the rise of Quaker commerce / Andrew Fincham -- Quaker clockmakers / Tim Marshall -- George Bradshaw (1801-1853): publisher and compiler of railway timetables / Colin Mckenzie -- Joseph Wharton: American Hicksite Quaker "captain of industry" / Jean Mulhern and Cathy Pitzer -- The Rowntrees: tales from a chocolate family / Paul Chrystal -- Colonizer William Penn and engineer Herbert Hoover: how their business affected ther philanthropy and statesmanship / Stephen W. Angell -- The Birmingham Quaker business community 1800-1900 / Nicola Sleapwood -- Quaker business method: a contemporary decision-making process? / Nicholas Burton.

"This book focuses on the much vaunted reputation of Quakers in business and industry. It interrogates some of the myths about Quaker success and their reasons for engaging in commerce, offers case studies of key areas of business, and highlights some of the pioneers of industry. This volume also helps theorise key Quaker understandings of wealth-creation and explores some of the shifting patterns and possibilities that have emerged in the last century and a half."--Page 4 of cover.

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