Condensed Capitalism : : Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century / / Daniel Sidorick.
Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed this trend. One of America's most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup Company, was one such except...
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