Employing A Nation
In 1905 Western Electric began construction of the Hawthorne Works on the outskirts of Chicago and which, by 1914 had absorbed all manufacturing work from Clinton Street and Western Electric's other plant in New York. Later large factories included the Kearny Works in Kearny, New Jersey, Columbus Works in Columbus, Ohio and Kansas City Works in Lee Summit, Missouri. By 1966, eleven "works" plants were operating including:
- Hawthorne Works, Cicero, Illinois (full plant)
- Kearney Works, Kearny, New Jersey (full plant)
- Baltimore Works, Baltimore, Maryland
- Allentown Works, Allentown, Pennsylvania (new electrical equipment)
- Indianapolis Works, Indianapolis, Indiana (consumer telephones)
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina Works (defense applications)
- Merrimack Valley Works, North Andover, Massachusetts (transmission equipment)
- Omaha Works, Omaha, Nebraska (wire)
- Columbus Works, Columbus, Ohio (switching equipment)
- Kansas City Works, Lee Summit, Missouri (electronics, switching equipment)
- Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 260 employees in 1966, established 1904.
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