| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2 | The History Cooperative

Ferdinando Fasce. An American Family: The Great War and Corporate Culture in America. Translated by Ian Harvey. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 190. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.
This book by Ferdinando Fasce is a case study of industrial relations at the Scovill Manufacturing Company, a large brass manufacturer in Waterbury, Connecticut. Although it contains material on Scovill's development over the course of the nineteenth century, most of the book focuses on the tumultuous decade of the 1910s. The version under review is a fluid translation of the original Italian publication (1993), which won the Organization of American Historians' Foreign Language Book Prize.	1
Scovill was a specialty manufacturer of diverse products like buttons and lamps rather than a mass-production company. To achieve flexibility and quality, it relied heavily on the talents of its foremen and skilled workers. Yet by the 1910s, technological change had reduced the relative size of the skilled group and expanded the ranks of semiskilled operatives, many of them recent immigrants from Italy, Lithuania, and Russia. Like other manufacturing companies, Scovill tried simultaneously to secure the loyalty of its skilled workforce while "Americanizing" the new immigrants who labored in its dusty and dangerous brass mills. It introduced a variety of programs familiar to students of welfare capitalism, ranging from English classes to company picnics.	. . .

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