Aspirations and Anxieties : New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System 1815-1850 - David A. Zonderman

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Aspirations and Anxieties

New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System 1815-1850

By: David A. Zonderman

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Hardcover | 2 January 1992

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Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on the operatives' perceptions of technological and socio-economic changes in the mechanized workplace. The study uncovers a complex debate over many facets of the factory system--the machines and factory buildings, wages and hours, relations between managers and workers, and the content and character of protest. Finally, the book argues that the roots of this debate lie in the struggle to define the meaning of work itself in a period of profound social change.

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`this study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the formation of a working class in an industrialising society.' Labour History Review 'This is a scholarly book, which provides important new insights into the experience of industrialisation in New England. Zonderman has marshalled an impressive array of evidence both primary and secondary ... this book can be recommended as an enlightening and interesting study of the experience of industrialisation in New England.' Mary B. Rose, Lancaster University, Business History

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
	p. 19
Terror and Wonder: Workers and Machines	p. 21
The Quest for the Middle Ground: Workers and Factory Buildings	p. 63
Harmony and Antagonism: Workers, Managers, and the Social Relations of Production	p. 97
Solidarity and Fragmentation: Workers' Social Dynamics on the Shop Floor	p. 119
Rules,Schools,And Prisons: Workers and Factory Regulations	p. 144
Paying the Price: Workers, Contracts, and Wage Labor	p. 163
	p. 193
To the Streets and the Halls: Workers, Protest, and Organizing	p. 195
A Time to Labor: Workers, the Workday, and the Ten-Hour Movement	p. 234
Means and Ends: Workers and the Value of Work	p. 261
Notes	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 339
Index	p. 349
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Aspirations and Anxieties

New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System 1815-1850

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