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company-sponsored schooling  

Definition(s)

  • Beginning in the early nineteenth century and ending only after World War II, American companies frequently engaged in industrial welfare plans that included extraordinary investments in company-sponsored education. Industrial towns, with company houses, churches, recreation, and medical care, dotted the American landscape. [Source: Encyclopedia ofthe Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Company-Sponsored Schooling]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-C76KBB8B-W

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