The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860

The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860
ISBN-10
0521313961
ISBN-13
9780521313964
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
1985-10-31
Publisher
CUP Archive
Author
Jonathan Prude

Description

This study of antebellum industrialisation in several communities in rural Massachusetts illuminates what industrialisation meant in the early to mid nineteenth-century. Jonathan Prude probes the tensions produced by the conflict between innovation and the received attitudes and institutions that still shaped daily existence. Two connected but discrete areas of tension emerged: that between workers and managers within certain manufacturing establishments (especially textiles), and between manufacturers and the communities in which they were located. The book demonstrates that antebellum industrialisation had a rural as well as an urban dimension and that, far from being the untroubled process described by some historians, it was a phenomenon characterised by deep conflict.

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