Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bulletin of the Department of Labor, Vol. 6: September, 1896
He continued to invent new devices, for which he secured in all over fifty letters patent. As a result of these improvements his industry increased constantly in importance, and in 1846 he found it advisable to move his works to Guise, a neighboring village more favorably sit uated for the conduct of a large manufacturing enterprise. At this date he employed about thirty workingmen. After its removal to Guise the business continued to grow, until to day it Is one of the most impor tant manufacturing establishments in France. Until 1859 the history of the industry differs little from that of any growing establishment. In that year Was commenced the erection of the left wing of the fami listero, a large building for housing the employees of Godin, also the inauguration of a system for the organization of labor that In the future wasto give to the life of the employees of the establishment its pecal iar character.
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