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Springfield Armory National Historic Site

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Nearly 200 years of operation in one place leaves a hell of a paper trail — and the Springfield Armory's record goes well beyond what rifle they made and when. The armory paid hourly wages at a time when most manufacturing workers were paid by the piece, a business practice significant enough that historians credit it as an early model for modern labor management. Most people think of Springfield as the place that built the M1 Garand. They don't think of it as the place that helped invent t...

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Springfield Armory National Historic Site

Springfield Armory — formally the United States Armory and Arsenal at Springfield — operated on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1777 until the federal government closed it in 1968. Nearly two centuries of

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