A Mechanical People, by Carl Siracusa (1979)
by Siracusa, Carl
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- Hardcover
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- used-good condition, dust jacket fading with tears at top corner left,/Yes
- ISBN 10
- 0819550299
- ISBN 13
- 9780819550293
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USA: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. Hardcover. used-good condition, dust jacket fading with tears at top corner left,/Yes. 6x9. “A Mechanical People: Perceptions of the Industrial Order in Massachusetts 1815-1880” (1979), by Carl Siracusa, is a book that fills a major gap in scholarship on the working class in the 19th century. It contributes to an understanding of labor and intellectual history, and also to the literature on modernization in early America, by analyzing the perceptions of industrialization among the molders of public opinion and enactors of legislation. The book focuses on Massachusetts, one of the most advanced manufacturing states of New England, to chronicle the rise of the working class. The worker occupied a central place in the new order brought about by industrialization. In time, as industrialization eroded the worker's position and immigrants entered his ranks, the contradictions brought the work's elevated status under attack. Yet the worker's position survived nearly intact until after the Civil War. Author Carl Siracusa was assistant professor of history at Rutgers University in Newark.
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- Full Well Books (US)
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- Title
- A Mechanical People, by Carl Siracusa (1979)
- Author
- Siracusa, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- used-good condition, dust jacket fading with tears at top corner left,
- Jacket Condition
- Yes
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0819550299
- ISBN 13
- 9780819550293
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 6x9
- Keywords
- A Mechanical People history book Carl Siracusa author Working class history Industrialization perceptions
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