Rick Madrid NUMMI Hat
date: label: date made
content: 1989
notes: label: Description
content: New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (NUMMI) was an auto manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, that was jointly operated by Toyota and General Motors from 1984 until 2010. GM had operated the plant at Fremont from 1960, where the clashes between management and union workers grew so contentious that the plant closed in 1982. When it reopened as a joint venture between Toyota and GM, Japanese management techniques had been studied and implemented to emphasize collaboration and teamwork between workers and management. The objects collected from NUMMI included donations from Judy Weaver (engineering department secretary) and Rick Madrid (quality control), who submitted winning essays on the concept of teamwork.
label: Description
content: Rick Madrid wore this hat with the NUMMI logo as part of his uniform. The hat is adorned with a variety of pins celebrating work projects, special awards, personal flair, or milestones that were achieved during Madrid’s work at the NUMMI plant.
place: label: worn
content: United States: California, Fremont
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Work
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rick M. Madrid
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0402.19
label: accession number
content: 1989.0402
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0402.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)