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The Hawthorne Works
1905
Cicero, Illinois
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Western Electric's forty-five-thousand-worker plant built most of America's telephones, and a series of productivity studies here in the twenties discovered that people work differently when they know they are being watched, the Hawthorne effect. A shopping center and one tower remain.
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