Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992
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Large 8vo. xv (iii), 439 (1) pp. First Paperback Edition, 1992. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.25". Illustrated wrappers. "On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of a Melville short story views the "wonderful" paper making machine with awe, calling it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting a similar nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, examined here by the author." Size: Large Octavo.
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- Title
- Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
- Author
- McGaw, Judith A.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691006253
- ISBN 13
- 9780691006253
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition.
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"Most Wonderful Machine belongs on a list with the mere handful that have offered deep insights into the American industrial revolution and especially into the social relations of mechanization. . . . An extraordinary achievement."--George H. Daniels, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
"An especially rewarding chapter is devoted to the 'separate sphere' of women workers."--Stanley Buder, History
"Weaves together technical, business, political and cultural themes to create a fully-realized analysis of industrialization that is alert to place, product, and gender, entrepreneurship, markets and the shifting character and meanings of work. It is simply essential reading."--Labor History
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