The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America

by Robert B. Gordon and Patrick M. Malone

Book Overview

While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual work-places and how people worked. Workers seldom wrote about their daily employment. However, they did leave behind their tools, products, shops, and factories as well as the surrounding industrial landscapes and communities. In this book, Gordon and Malone look at the industrialization of North America...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195111419
• ISBN13: 9780195111415
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.3"