Ernest Bader (24 November 1890 – 5 February 1982) and his wife, Dora Scott, founded a chemical company, Scott Bader,
and gave it to the employees under terms of
Common ownership
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Forms of common ownership exist in every economi ...
, forming the Scott Bader Commonwealth in 1951.
Scott Bader Ltd. was founded in 1921 with office premises in
Finsbury Square, London,
[Susanna Hoe,''The Man Who Gave His Company Away'', William Heinemann Ltd. 1978, p.42] and moved to
Wollaston, Northamptonshire in 1943. It makes
synthetic resins and
composite materials. Since 1951 it has expanded and is now international, employing around 700 people. Its current CEO is Kevin Matthews.
Originally of
Swiss
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nationality, Ernest Bader had been a
conscientious objector
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in his home country. He was a
Quaker
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, co-founder of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1957,
and a member of the
Committee of 100 (United Kingdom). Influential in Bader's thinking were the
Society of Friends
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which he joined in 1945, the 17th century Quaker
George Fox
George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and ...
,
Mahatma Gandhi,
John Middleton Murry,
Wilfred Wellock, and
Canon John Collins with whom he establish Demintry (Society for Democratic Integration in Industry) in 1958.
When he died in 1982, aged 91,
[''The Times'', Monday, 8 February 1982; pg. 10; Issue 61152; col F "Obituary"] at his home in Wollaston, Bader owned no personal business assets, private house, or car.
References
External links
Ernest Bader's Socio-Economic Vision Scott Bader Company
Reflections by Godric Bader(son of Ernest Bader),
New Economics InstituteCatalogue of the Scott Bader archives held at the
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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Catalogue of Ernest Bader's papers held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
1890 births
1982 deaths
English Quakers
Swiss conscientious objectors
Swiss emigrants to the United Kingdom
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
20th-century English businesspeople
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