1st Edition
Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830�1890
By Andrew Dawson
Copyright 2004
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century American business leaders as a social group and this study helps remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social and economic development of the largest centre of machine building in... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Philadelphia style; Inside the workshop: production, authority and resistance; Industrial biography; A subaltern class, 1830-62; Reconstructing the city; Apprenticeship, the habits of industry, and the public schools; The decline of Philadelphia engineering and the origin of scientific management; Conclusion: building machines, changing worlds; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Andrew Dawson
