Singer Manufacturing ID Badge
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rita J. Adrosko
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0289.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0289
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0289.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tag, identification
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 3/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 4.7625 cm x .9525 cm