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  2. Thomas Gustave Plant - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Gustave Plant. Thomas Gustave Plant (1859–1941) was born in Bath, Maine, the son of immigrants from Canada East, who made his fortune manufacturing shoes under the Queen Quality Shoes label. His largest shoe factory, the Thomas G. Plant Shoe Factory (1896-1976) stood at the corner of Centre and Bickford streets in Jamaica Plain (a ...

  3. North Adams strike - Wikipedia

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    The North Adams strike (also called North Adams Scandal) was a strike in 1870 by shoe workers of the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Calvin T. Sampson 's Shoe factory, in North Adams, Massachusetts. The strike itself was broken when the factory superintendent, George W. Chase, fired the Irish workers, replacing them with newly ...

  4. Dassler brothers feud - Wikipedia

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    Dassler brothers feud. The Dassler brothers feud was a conflict between two brothers and their respective shoe manufacturers, Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf ("Rudi") Dassler, in the latter half of the 20th century. Their feud led to the creation of Adidas and Puma, two of the biggest shoe manufacturing companies, and started a long-lasting rivalry ...

  5. Okabashi's Shoes Are Japan By Way of Iran By Way of Georgia - AOL

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    During World War II, Buford was home to a factory run by the U.S. Army that manufactured and repaired millions of boots for American soldiers. From the 1950s through 1981, Buford was known both in ...

  6. Shoemaking - Wikipedia

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    Shoemaking is the process of making footwear . Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [citation needed] ). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds [1] of masters, journeymen, and apprentices (both men and ...

  7. Manfield and Sons - Wikipedia

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    According to the census of 1851, Manfield was a ‘patent shoe manufacturer employing 200 hands’. Between 1857 and 1859 company built a big warehouse on Campbell Square, Northampton with installed closing machinery, thus inaugurating the indoor factory system for boot and shoe making. This building was demolished in 1982.

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