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Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Lynn, Massachusetts 1780-1860

By: Paul G. Faler

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Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Lynn, Massachusetts 1780-1860

By: Paul G. Faler

Lynn, Massachusetts, once the leading shoe manufacturing city of the United States, was in many ways a model of the industrial city that much of America was to become. This study of the early industrial revolution in Lynn focuses on the journeymen shoemakers—leading participants in the making of the institutions, ideas, and events that form central themes in the history of working people in America. Spanning the time period from just after the American Revolution to the Civil War, it places special emphasis on the social changes that accompany industrialization, and the impact of those changes on workers. It examines the shoe industry and shoemaking in detail: wages and conditions of work, social clubs and political parties, strikes as well as schools, and trade unions as well as temperance societies. It also explores property ownership and social mobility, the origins and nature of class consciousness and class ideology, and the relations between workers and manufacturers across the spectrum of social institutions. This rich, detailed study of the industrial revolution in a single community is one of the few books available that combines labor history and social history, revealing the fullness and breadth in the experience of the working people.

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State University of New York Press

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1438402252

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Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper

By: Paul E. Johnson

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Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper

By: Paul E. Johnson

The true history of a legendary American folk hero In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the tumultuous waters below Pawtucket Falls. When in 1827 he repeated the stunt in Paterson, New Jersey, another mill town, an even larger audience gathered to cheer on the daredevil they would call the "Jersey Jumper." Inevitably, he went to Niagara Falls, where in 1829 he jumped not once but twice in front of thousands who had paid for a good view. The distinguished social historian Paul E. Johnson gives this deceptively simple story all its deserved richness, revealing in its characters and social settings a virtual microcosm of Jacksonian America. He also relates the real jumper to the mythic Sam Patch who turned up as a daring moral hero in the works of Hawthorne and Melville, in London plays and pantomimes, and in the spotlight with Davy Crockett—a Sam Patch who became the namesake of Andrew Jackson's favorite horse. In his shrewd and powerful analysis, Johnson casts new light on aspects of American society that we may have overlooked or underestimated. This is innovative American history at its best.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429931957

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9781429931953

A More Perfect Union: Since 1865

By: Paul F. Boller,Ronald Story

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A More Perfect Union: Since 1865

By: Paul F. Boller,Ronald Story

This reader provides a wealth of political and diplomatic primary source documents, including many selections illustrated with photographs. Each document is preceded by a headnote that places the document within a historical context. Headnotes conclude with Questions to Consider, which stimulate comprehension of the document and comparative analysis of related selections.

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0395959594

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9780395959596

A More Perfect Union: To 1877

By: Paul F. Boller,Ronald Story

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By: Paul F. Boller,Ronald Story

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Cengage Learning

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0618436839

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Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Lynn, Massachusetts 1780-1860

By: Paul G. Faler

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Lynn, Massachusetts 1780-1860

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SUNY Press

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0873955056

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Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Lynn, Massachusetts 1780-1860

By: Paul Gustaf Faler

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Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Lynn, Massachusetts 1780-1860

By: Paul Gustaf Faler

Lynn, Massachusetts, once the leading shoe manufacturing city of the United States, was in many ways a model of the industrial city that much of America was to become. This study of the early industrial revolution in Lynn focuses on the journeymen shoemakers--leading participants in the making of the institutions, ideas, and events that form central themes in the history of working people in America. Spanning the time period from just after the American Revolution to the Civil War, it places special emphasis on the social changes that accompany industrialization, and the impact of those changes on workers. It examines the shoe industry and shoemaking in detail: wages and conditions of work, social clubs and political parties, strikes as well as schools, and trade unions as well as temperance societies. It also explores property ownership and social mobility, the origins and nature of class consciousness and class ideology, and the relations between workers and manufacturers across the spectrum of social institutions. This rich, detailed study of the industrial revolution in a single community is one of the few books available that combines labor history and social history, revealing the fullness and breadth in the experience of the working people.

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Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper

Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper

A More Perfect Union: Since 1865

A More Perfect Union: Since 1865

A More Perfect Union: To 1877

A More Perfect Union: To 1877

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution

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