Singer Manufacturing ID Badge
Singer Manufacturing ID Badge
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- Description
- This Singer Manufacturing Company ID badge belonged to John Adrosko. According to the 1930 Federal Census, Adrosko worked at the Singer Manufacturing Company plant in Elizabeth, New Jersey, performing clerical duties. The expansion of the scale of industry often meant that managers did not know every employee by sight, which created the need for employee identification in large plants such as the Singer plant.
- Additionally management sometimes sought to regiment the workforce by restricting access to certain areas of the plant through ID badges and to help protect themselves against sabotage, espionage, and labor organization.
- Object Name
- tag, identification
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 3/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 4.7625 cm x.9525 cm
- ID Number
- 1984.0289.01
- accession number
- 1984.0289
- catalog number
- 1984.0289.01
- Credit Line
- Rita J. Adrosko
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- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Work
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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