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Networked machinists : high-technology industries in Antebellum America / David R. Meyer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyer, David R.
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Machinists--United States--History.
- Machinists.
- Metalworking industries--United States--History.
- Metalworking industries.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- David R. Meyer freshly examines the development of skilled-labor exchange systems, showing how individual metalworking sectors grew and moved outward. He argues that the networked behavior of machinists within and across industries helps explain the rapid transformation of metalworking industries during the antebellum period, building a foundation for the sophisticated, mass production/consumer industries that figured so prominently in the later U.S. economy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801884713
- 9780801884719
- OCLC:
- 65340979
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- Publisher description
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