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

Jonathan Prude (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

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: 232 pages
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558492046
• ISBN-13: 978-1558492042
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is wonderful!, January 7, 2005

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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!