"Good work! Well written! A solid contribution to an important area of American social history." -- Peter Dobkin Hall, Yale University
"Farrell has made an important contribution to the study of social organization by demonstrating the fundamentally important role of kinship connections in macroeconomic and social change. She demonstrates significant family capitalism well into the period that other historians, who have not done the kind of kinship analyses she has, have asserted marked the beginning of managerial capitalism. Moreover, this book also points the way to new research questions and approaches linking the 'sociology of the family' to major themes in the study of social organization." -- Paul J. DiMaggio, Princeton University
Traces the development and persistence of the Boston Brahmins from the beginning of industrialization, in the 1820s, to the early twentieth century. Primarily investigates how traditional forms of social organization, such as kinship, have responded to the social and economic challenges of industrialization; and the role of the economic elite in sh