ISBN:
9780520926578
,
0520926579
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 230 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Minding the machine
DDC:
305.5097309034
Keywords:
Social classes History
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19th century
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United States
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Industrial revolution History
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19th century
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United States
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Work in literature
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Social classes in literature
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Industrial revolution History 19th century
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Social classes History 19th century
;
Social classes History 19th century
;
Social classes in literature
;
Industrial revolution History 19th century
;
Work in literature
;
Electronic books United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes
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HISTORY ; United States ; General
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Industrial revolution
;
Social classes
;
Social classes in literature
;
Work in literature
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
United States
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
"In this book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in American during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production." "Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners - and the oversees, foremen, or managers they employed - and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine." "Rice presents discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His narrative demonstrates that class is an much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle."--BOOK JACKET
Description / Table of Contents:
1. The antebellum popular discourse on mechanization2. Head and hand : the mechanics' institute movement and the conception of class authority -- 3. Hand and head : the manual labor school movement -- 4. Mind and body : popular physiology and the health of a nation -- 5. Human and machine : steam boiler explosions and the making of the engineer.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-221) and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520227811.001.0001
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