The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860

by Jonathan Prude

This study of antebellum industrialisation in several communities in rural Massachusetts illuminates what industrialisation meant in the early to mid nineteenth-century. Jonathan Prude probes the tensions produced by the conflict between innovation and the received attitudes and institutions that still shaped daily existence. Two connected but discrete areas of tension emerged: that between workers and managers within certain manufacturing establishments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521313961
• ISBN13: 9780521313964
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This is wonderful!

I really like this book a lot! It has a great deal of information on Oxford and Dudley, as well as explanations as to how a small community went from a farming town into a mill town. Great buy!