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Mechanics and manufacturers in the early industrial revolution : Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860 / Paul G. Faler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in American social historyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1981.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 267 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585091714
  • 9780585091716
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mechanics and manufacturers in the early industrial revolution.DDC classification:
  • 331.7/68531/0097445 19
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.B72 U657eb
Other classification:
  • F249. 712. 9
Online resources:
Contents:
Lynn-the first century -- Rise of the shoe industry -- A community of mechanics -- Rise of the shoe manufacturers -- The shoemakers: wages and other standards -- The origins of industrial morality -- Lynn and the new industrial morality: "A well-regulated Republic in miniature" -- Patterns of mobility and property ownership -- The formation of class consciousness: experience and ideology -- The social dimensions of the class experience -- The great shoemakers' strike.
Summary: 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 study of the industrial revolution in a single community combines labor history and social history, revealing the fullness and breadth in the experience of the working people.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-261) and index.

Print version record.

Lynn-the first century -- Rise of the shoe industry -- A community of mechanics -- Rise of the shoe manufacturers -- The shoemakers: wages and other standards -- The origins of industrial morality -- Lynn and the new industrial morality: "A well-regulated Republic in miniature" -- Patterns of mobility and property ownership -- The formation of class consciousness: experience and ideology -- The social dimensions of the class experience -- The great shoemakers' strike.

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 study of the industrial revolution in a single community combines labor history and social history, revealing the fullness and breadth in the experience of the working people.

English.

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