Hawthorne Works
1905 - Demolished
Overview
Western Electrics colossal telephone equipment plant in Cicero, Illinois, with over 40,000 workers at its peak. The Hawthorne experiments run here from 1924 to 1932 gave management science the Hawthorne effect, the observation that attention alone changes worker behavior.
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