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

Jonathan Prude (Author)

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Publication Date: October 31, 1985

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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Product Details

Paperback: 372 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 31, 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521313961
ISBN-13: 978-0521313964
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

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This review is from: The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860 (Paperback)

I really like this book a lot! It has a great deal of information on Oxford and Dudley, as well as explanations as to how a small community went from a farming town into a mill town. Great buy!

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