The Aladdin Company

Illustration from a 1921 Industrial Homes catalogue published by The Aladdin Company. Courtesy of the Clarke Historical Library, University of Michigan. “A complete home environment for employees has come to be one of the accepted principles of modern industrial management. In England this idea has most completely worked out. In fact, it has gone further […]

A Brief history of The Austin Village

A Brief historys of The Austin Village The Austin Village was erected in 1917 by the Austin Motor Company, to accommodate the rise in the workforce of the Austin motor plant in Longbridge, Birmingham during The First World War. The workforce of two thousand in 1914 grew to over twenty thousand by the end of […]