Ebook: From Industry to Alchemy: Burgmaster, a Machine Tool Company

A frequent writer on business and contemporary history, Holland (U. of Virginia) interviewed his own father and other long-time employees of the company to offer a very different view than it promulgated when asking for government relief from foreign competition in the early 1980s. The original title was more pointed: When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America, published by the Harvard Business School Press.