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Documents in American industrial history by Michael Brewster Folsom; Steven D Lubar; Gary Kulik; Roger N Parks; Theodore Z Penn is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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The industrial revolution in America did not begin with billows of smoke and steam from city factories but in bucolic settings scattered about the rural landscape where textile manufacturing first took root. As Zachariah Allen writes in 1829, these textile operations were "carried on in little hamlets, which often appear to spring up in the bosom of some forest, around the water fall which serves to turn the mill wheel." When he wrote there were already thousands of company-owned mill villages in the northeast and by 1840 there were nearly 700 cotton mills alone in New England, most of them still in such villages close to rivers and streams. <p>This book documents the growth of industrial technology in these "little hamlets," covering the social, labor, economic, and technical aspects of this fascinating chapter in the development of American enterprise.</p> <p>The sources brought together here include company records; general histories of early cotton manufactures; accounts of particular companies; memoirs, autobiographies, letters, and diary entries of mill founders, managers, and workers; contemporary descriptions of factory villages; data found in ledgers, manufacturing censuse

Who reads Documents in American industrial history?

Author

Michael Brewster Folsom; Steven D Lubar; Gary Kulik; Roger N Parks; Theodore Z Penn

Publisher

The MIT Press ; Merrimack Valley Textile Museum

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262060769

Category

science

Subjects

Sociology, Management, History

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14