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Acknowledgments Hundreds of people have helped me on this project in one way or another over the past quarter century; I thank them all. I would like to acknowledge the leaders, staff, and participants in the Naugatuck Valley Project (NVP) who helped me with this work over the years, including Ken Galdston, Carol Burkhart-Lyons, Barbara Therrien, Theresa Francis, Janet Caggiano, and Rev. Elizabeth Rosa. Thanks also to the more than one hundred people who let me interview them for this research and the hundreds more who have let me interview them for other aspects of my research in the Naugatuck Valley. I received help with the chapters on ValleyCare from Ruth Glasser and with the chapter on Brookside from Lucien Lafreniere. Among those who introduced me to the valley were Peter and Frances Marcuse, who have supported my involvement ever since, and my first valley collaborators, Jerry Lombardi and the late Jan Stackhouse. The Mattatuck Museum has provided me a base for thirty years of research in the Naugatuck Valley and specifically helped with archiving my NVP materials and participating in the 2009 NVP History Project; I would like to acknowledge in particular Ann Smith, Marie Galbraith, Suzie Fateh, and Cynthia Roznoy. Sister Marie Michaud and another volunteer who has requested to remain anonymous made an enormous contribution by transcribing many of the interviews used in this book. I would also like to thank those who have given me comments on all or part of the book, including Ken Galdston, Carol Burkhart-Lyons, Ruth Glasser, Jill Cutler, Charles Hotchkiss, and Peter Rachleff. I would like to thank the Cooperative Charitable Trust, which nurtured the initial research project that gave birth to this book and provided ­ support to finish it. I would also like to thank the members of the Cooperative Charitable Trust Forum, who individually and collectively provided a great deal of my knowledge and understanding of all matters connected with cooperatives and employee ownership as well as commentary on the original studies that resulted in this book. This project was also made possible by support provided to related work by the Connecticut Humanities Council, the Catholic Communications Campaign, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. xii Acknowledgments ...

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