The name of Rowntree will always be associated with the making of
chocolates and sweets and with its home town of York. Yet, as Paul
Chrystal shows in this book, there was much more to this remarkable
family than profitable manufacturing. Driven by their Quaker faith,
generations of the Rowntree family engaged themselves with the
welfare of their workers, improving not only the conditions they
worked under but providing a range of benefits from housing to
education. Their concerns ranged from the identification of the
causes of poverty and work on its eradication, which has been seen
as one of the beginnings of the welfare state, to supporting Quaker
concerns with the treatment of the mentally ill, the causes and
prevention of war and the education of the working classes. The
book looks at the tensions that exist between business practice and
a faith which demands absolute honesty from its adherents. The
origins of the family are traced from its first records in the
sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century when
Rowntrees was taken over by Nestle."
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