Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Italo Calvino, Adriano Olivetti, Luigi Comencini, Giovanni Morelli, Riccardo Illy, Paolo Ferrero, Lucio Malan, Valdo Spini, Camillo Olivetti, Domenico Maselli, Rosario Olivo. Excerpt: Adriano Olivetti (11 April 1901, Ivrea, Piedmont 27 February 1960, on a train from Milan to Lausanne ) was an Italian entrepreneur, the son of the founder of Olivetti, Camillo Olivetti . Adriano Olivetti was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters, calculators, and computers . Olivetti was an entrepreneur and innovator who transformed shop-like operations into a modern factory. In and out of the factory, he both practiced and preached the utopian system of "the community movement," but he was not an astute enough politician to have a mass following. The Olivetti empire was begun by his father Camillo. Initially, the "factory" (consisting of 30 workers) concentrated on electric measurement devices. By 1908, 25 years after Remington in the United States, Olivetti started to produce typewriters. A Waldensian, Camillo believed that his children could get a better education at home. Adriano's formative years were spent under the tutelage of his mother, an educated and sober woman. Also, as a socialist, Camillo emphasized the non-differentiation between manual and intellectual work. His children, during their time away from study, worked with and under the same conditions as his workers. The discipline and sobriety Camillo imposed on his family induced rebellion in Adriano's adolescence manifested by a dislike of "his father's" workplace and by his studying at a polytechnic school of subjects other than the mechanical engineering his father wanted. Nevertheless, after graduation in 1924 he joined the company for a short while. When he became undesi...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Italian Waldensians: Italo Calvino, Adriano Olivetti, Luigi Comencini, Giovanni Morelli, Riccardo Illy, Paolo Ferrero, Lucio Malan, Valdo Spini. To get started finding Italian Waldensians: Italo Calvino, Adriano Olivetti, Luigi Comencini, Giovanni Morelli, Riccardo Illy, Paolo Ferrero, Lucio Malan, Valdo Spini, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
54
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155707109
Italian Waldensians: Italo Calvino, Adriano Olivetti, Luigi Comencini, Giovanni Morelli, Riccardo Illy, Paolo Ferrero, Lucio Malan, Valdo Spini
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Italo Calvino, Adriano Olivetti, Luigi Comencini, Giovanni Morelli, Riccardo Illy, Paolo Ferrero, Lucio Malan, Valdo Spini, Camillo Olivetti, Domenico Maselli, Rosario Olivo. Excerpt: Adriano Olivetti (11 April 1901, Ivrea, Piedmont 27 February 1960, on a train from Milan to Lausanne ) was an Italian entrepreneur, the son of the founder of Olivetti, Camillo Olivetti . Adriano Olivetti was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters, calculators, and computers . Olivetti was an entrepreneur and innovator who transformed shop-like operations into a modern factory. In and out of the factory, he both practiced and preached the utopian system of "the community movement," but he was not an astute enough politician to have a mass following. The Olivetti empire was begun by his father Camillo. Initially, the "factory" (consisting of 30 workers) concentrated on electric measurement devices. By 1908, 25 years after Remington in the United States, Olivetti started to produce typewriters. A Waldensian, Camillo believed that his children could get a better education at home. Adriano's formative years were spent under the tutelage of his mother, an educated and sober woman. Also, as a socialist, Camillo emphasized the non-differentiation between manual and intellectual work. His children, during their time away from study, worked with and under the same conditions as his workers. The discipline and sobriety Camillo imposed on his family induced rebellion in Adriano's adolescence manifested by a dislike of "his father's" workplace and by his studying at a polytechnic school of subjects other than the mechanical engineering his father wanted. Nevertheless, after graduation in 1924 he joined the company for a short while. When he became undesi...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Italian Waldensians: Italo Calvino, Adriano Olivetti, Luigi Comencini, Giovanni Morelli, Riccardo Illy, Paolo Ferrero, Lucio Malan, Valdo Spini. To get started finding Italian Waldensians: Italo Calvino, Adriano Olivetti, Luigi Comencini, Giovanni Morelli, Riccardo Illy, Paolo Ferrero, Lucio Malan, Valdo Spini, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.