ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on his research program but events in the rapidly changing department and university altered his plans for almost a decade. Department growth brought in new colleagues who stimulated productive collaborative research in areas other than industrial sociology. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Michigan routinely secured GM cooperation but Michigan State apparently lacked sufficient clout. Stone had a half-time research appointment supported by an Experiment Station grant to the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts in the College of Home Economics for a project that Loomis had generated. An interdepartmental faculty committee was formed to plan and carry out the research project. Graduate students from Textiles, Clothing and Related Arts continued to do research on clothing and pressed him to direct their theses and sit on their committees.
