[Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company]: Budd, Richard T.:

$2,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

[PHOTOGRAPHICALLY-ILLUSTRATED TYPESCRIPT ALBUM DOCUMENTING THE EXPERIENCES OF RICHARD T. BUDD, THE LONG-SERVING PLANT MANAGER OF THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY IN THE ... A unique and large format presentation typescript documenting the facilities, services, and employees of the Philippine branch of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1959, illustrated with almost 200 photographs, produced for the twentieth anniversary of the tire plant's manager, Richard T. Budd. The photographic scrapbook constitutes an extensive visual record of the facilities and operations of the Goodyear Tire factory in Las Piñas, Rizal, Philippines, and provides an interesting peek into American foreign business practices in the mid-20th century.The album is highlighted by more than 100 large, likely professional views of the factory exterior and interior, following the tire-making process from raw material through to finished product, with many of the images showing Filipino laborers at work. The album also contains a series of eight views of a January 1957 labor dispute. The images are accompanied by detailed typed captions explaining the tire-making process, the strike, and more. One such annotation reads: "On January 14, 1957, the factory tasted its first strike when barrio residents set up a picket allegedly in protest of the alleged unfair hiring procedure of the company. Pickets gathered at the front of the gate while bus loads of employees wait outside for a chance to cross the picket lin

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