In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century. He not only revisits this urban conglomeration, but also seeks out previously unheard groups such as women and blacks. The result is a more rounded portrait of a small eastern city on the verge of becoming modern.
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At a time when global forces often seem more important than any particular place, this classic study of America's industrial revolution reminds us that the local community can sometimes provide the most revealing setting for understanding larger social processes.
--Leon Fink, author of Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment
Praise for the first edition: Class and Community is an original study. It does far more than help liberate local history from town boosters ... It restores the American industrial revolution to historiography's center stage, where it belongs. (New York Times )
The author brilliantly examines the structure and culture of Lynn shoemakers...Diligent research, unearthing of new information, sophisticated conceptualization, imaginative thinking...make this book an extraordinary contribution in American social and economic history. (Historian )
This is a welcome re-issue of one of the first and best of the community studies of industrial change in the nineteenth-century United States that emerged with the "new social history" of the 1970s. First published in 1976, Dawley's book was widely influential as a model case study, as an application of class analysis to American social history, and as an example of social history with the politics left in.
--Christopher Clark (History )
--Leon Fink, author of Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment
Praise for the first edition: Class and Community is an original study. It does far more than help liberate local history from town boosters ... It restores the American industrial revolution to historiography's center stage, where it belongs. (New York Times )
The author brilliantly examines the structure and culture of Lynn shoemakers...Diligent research, unearthing of new information, sophisticated conceptualization, imaginative thinking...make this book an extraordinary contribution in American social and economic history. (Historian )
This is a welcome re-issue of one of the first and best of the community studies of industrial change in the nineteenth-century United States that emerged with the "new social history" of the 1970s. First published in 1976, Dawley's book was widely influential as a model case study, as an application of class analysis to American social history, and as an example of social history with the politics left in.
--Christopher Clark (History )
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Alan Dawley is Professor of History, The College of New Jersey.
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This review is from: Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Paperback)
Dawley packs this book with pertinent facts. This is a real page turner. There is not alot of published information about this particular area of the Industrial Revolution. So, the extensive research presented is greatly appreciated.
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Dawley packs this book with pertinent facts. This is a real page turner. There is not alot of published information about this particular area of the Industrial Revolution. So, the extensive research presented is greatly appreciated.
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stitching shops, male shoemakers, shop era, poor and the less poor, outwork system, factory work force, central shop, labor aristocrats, shoemaker families, census manuscripts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Equal Rights, Civil War, New England, Knights of Labor, United States, City Hall, New Hampshire, Industrial Revolution, Tree of Liberty, Labor Reform, New York, Unity Lodge, Great Strike, George Hood, Knight of Labor, Ebenezer Breed, Adam Smith, Free Soil, Town Hall, David Johnson, Board of Arbitration, House of Representatives, Wendell Phillips, James Madison, Lynn Crispins Browse Sample Pages:
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stitching shops, male shoemakers, shop era, poor and the less poor, outwork system, factory work force, central shop, labor aristocrats, shoemaker families, census manuscripts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Equal Rights, Civil War, New England, Knights of Labor, United States, City Hall, New Hampshire, Industrial Revolution, Tree of Liberty, Labor Reform, New York, Unity Lodge, Great Strike, George Hood, Knight of Labor, Ebenezer Breed, Adam Smith, Free Soil, Town Hall, David Johnson, Board of Arbitration, House of Representatives, Wendell Phillips, James Madison, Lynn Crispins Browse Sample Pages:
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- The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force: An Historical Perspective (Contributions in Labor Studies) by Herbert Applebaum on page 70, page 88, and page 98
- In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (Working Class in American History) by Leon Fink on page 30, page 111, and page 164
- Those who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) by Hal S. Barron in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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