Encyclopedic entries cover the prominent people and events of the period of dramatic industrial growth in the United States.
Industrialism and Industrial Man: The Problems of Labor and Management in Economic Growth
In this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914.
Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America
Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865-1920
This book considers the rise of industrialism, and early and contemporary theories of industrialism.
Drawing on recent studies in the history of technology, this groundbreaking work offers a new view of the Industrial Revolution in America.
It is a matter of public notoriety that within the last ten years the methods of the shoe manufactures have been revolutionized by the invention of the McKay sewing machine. The invention of the spinning jenny and of the power loom did ...
Industrialism and Industrial Man in Retrospect: A Critical Review of the Ford Foundation's Support for the Inter-university Study of Labor
This book makes available in a single volume all of the key contributions to this debate and takes it a step further with a number of specially commissioned pieces.
Rather than conventional narratives that depict China as belatedly borrowing from Western technology, Vernacular Industrialism in China offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role ...