Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America /

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"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 spac...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rice, Stephen P. (Stephen Patrick), 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Social classes > United States > History > 19th century.
Industrial revolution > United States > History > 19th century.
Work in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Labor in literature.
Classes sociales > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Révolution industrielle > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Travail dans la littérature.
Classes sociales dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Industrial revolution.
Social classes.
United States.
Samfundsvidenskab > Sociologi.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The antebellum popular discourse on mechanization
  • 2. 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.

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