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Aspirations and Anxieties : New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System, 1815-1850.

Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on the operatives' perceptions of technological and socio-economic changes in the mechanized workplace. The study uncovers a complex debate over manyfacets o...

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Main Author: Zonderman, David A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Labor > New England > History > 19th century.
Working class > New England > History > 19th century.
Factory system > New England > History > 19th century.
Industrial sociology > New England > History > 19th century.
Machinery in the workplace > New England > History > 19th century.
Labor movement > New England > History > 19th century.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780195363388
0195363388
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; PART I; 1. Terror and Wonder: Workers and Machines; 2. The Quest for the Middle Ground: Workers and Factory Buildings; 3. Harmony and Antagonism: Workers, Managers, and the Social Relations of Production; 4. Solidarity and Fragmentation: Workers' Social Dynamics on the Shop Floor; 5. Rules, Schools, and Prisons: Workers and Factory Regulations; 6. Paying the Price: Workers, Contracts, and Wage Labor; PART II; 7. To the Streets and the Halls: Workers, Protest, and Organizing; 8. A Time to Labor: Workers, the Workday, and the Ten-Hour Movement.
  • 9. Means and Ends: Workers and the Value of WorkNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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