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

Title: Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860
Author: Jonathan Prude
H: 1707152
ISBN: 9780521313964
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 372
Section: History | United States | 19th Century
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Publisher 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.