october october dutch entrepreneur husband involved manufacture lives engaged cooperative movement taking care workers created living quarters workers hometown named considered model cooperative development construction garden cities self contained communities workers founded ran factory advantage product factory life family childhood born october amsterdam netherlands daughter jan insurance agent sister grew upper middle class circumstances taught privately spent boarding school returned amsterdam studied piano dance took art classes religious instruction sister known married politician founder free thinking member house_of_representatives netherlands arnold lived children maintained close relationship called born daughter sister marriage met known studied technology precursor studies took study tour austria-hungary found new method producing fascinated later heard baker complain varying quality poor availability netherlands recalled method learnt tour decided produce industrial baker consistently high quality october couple married factory netherlands opened factory multinational chemical company regarded dutch pioneers development industrial food production concept factory production marriage registered population register november home modest apartment canal moved frequently homes standing classified historic buildings home moved june villa learnt marriage childless decided life husband business career participated establishment management operation accompanied husband factory day having office continued private lessons addition administrative activities main interests personnel policy issues maintained close contact employees factory families appealed couple sense community wanted larger shared husband belief progress promoted personal development employees husband infidelity children france spa found letter requesting child support owed children led discovering husband begun relationship aged children solved financial problems tell van knew affair till years years old children died tuberculosis took care surviving children anna young child officially foster children open secret officially secret widely known dutch society father consent van planned adopt religious father vetoed adoption eldest illegitimate son later headed pursued social interests father wife youngest daughter married diplomat publisher activities services legal situation sources information legally married women required approval husbands business acted behalf husband extensive records business ventures career exist sources mention activities unclear extent responsible ideas undoubtedly operational control factory undertook analysis housing needs working families equipped significantly influential early years management husband companies especially matters personnel start ups called welfare engineer contemporaries developed premium wage system factory workers employees receive bonuses percent salary addition basic salary good work zeal company paid percent profits employees engineer established concerns van human resources management institution netherlands van health problems nephew entrusted management factory founded business factory husband acted pro owner legal issues factory product production concentrated factory following years collaborated manufacturer created bottles products participated international exhibitions brand won prizes gained recognition company won bronze medal paris world fair australia won prize international fair sold company profit couple interested young industry netherlands time private capital legacy mother founded built factory factory took officially acted sole manager operate purchasing cooperative founded founded printing company owned companies instrumental decision making planning organisation couple pursued personnel policy established works council netherlands called height success employed approximately employees companies collectively known factory journal june issue internal newspaper factory called messenger factory published magazine kind world helped husband publications book question solution dutch attempt practical solution industry printed editions translated english german extent participation known certainly charge translations social welfare couple began work housing quarter workers followed principles garden city movement financial support mother purchased hectares acres plot land rural sparsely populated village outside city limits area developed style english landscape garden streams plans landscape architect son jan architect designed row houses buildings villa van facility named founder residential park featured individual multi story apartments private entrances private private garden areas established corporation development settlement gave park workers cooperative order prevent speculation great founders employees happy expected area remote urban infrastructure lacked good transportation facilities offset improvement community facilities buildings community large house elementary school served gathering place dining room features included gymnasium club tent tent music event pavilion grocery store later sold clothes park playground bowling alley shooting range rowing boats hire volunteer fire department brass band clubs shooting bowling cycling founded employees like living close employers complained distance city transportation problems criticised rental rates reserves deaths park gradually evolved desirable residential area villa long converted school demolished park listed cultural heritage corporate citizenship appointed secretary van dead time regularly visited charity schools involved improvement situation winter extended periods extreme cold affected netherlands temperatures minus degrees led distress citizens response founded care poor helping regardless religious political beliefs prompted husband launch led brother law ceo couple founded health insurance scheme insurance step regulated insurance case accidents work established criticism regarded social entrepreneur pioneer time social issues criticised acting workers instead letting participate explicitly mentioned drew criticism journalist der goes published obituary organ social democratic labour movement critical articles entitled life motives van social engagements van der goes wrote providing care workers loyalty wanted exercise social control staff dependent example found difficulty changing jobs moved house despite important model cooperative development construction garden cities workers park considered social housing scheme cared providing living conditions green environment high quality life
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