Author: William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building CoPublisher:
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Cramp's Shipyard War Activities
Author: William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building CoPublisher:
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Ships for the Seven Seas
Author: Thomas HeinrichPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421436868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers. In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
Activities of the Bureau of Yards and Docks
Author: United States. Bureau of Yards and DocksPublisher:
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Category : Navy-yards and naval stations
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Navy Ordnance Activities
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of OrdnancePublisher:
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Category : Ordnance, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Cramp's Shipyard Founded by William Cramp, 1830
Author: William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building CoPublisher:
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Category : Marine machinery industry
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Congregationalist
Author: The Congregationalist and Advance
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Organizing the Shipyards
Author: David PalmerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801427343
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In Organizing the Shipyards, David Palmer documents the history of union organizing at three of America's largest private shipyards from the Great Depression and the beginning of the New Deal to the end of World War II. These yards had tremendous strategic importance because of their location in the Northeast's three port regions: New York Shipbuilding in the port of Philadelphia, Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard in the port of Boston, and Federal Shipbuilding in the port of New York. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, which led each of the drives, pioneered industrial unionism and became one of the largest of the new CIO unions, with a quarter of a million members in an industry that employed more wartime workers than any other. Using oral history interviews with former union officials, organizing staff, and rank-and-file workers, Palmer presents both a narrative and a scholarly account. He covers the successes and the failures of union organizing in the yards themselves, in neighboring communities, and sometimes in outreach to political leaders as elevated as Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the process, Palmer offers a reassessment of the basis for the early gains of the CIO and also for its subsequent bureaucratization.
Zone of the interior. pt. 1. Organization and activities of the War Department. pt. 2. Territorial departments, tactical divisions organized in 1918, posts, camps, and stations. pt. 3. Directory of troops (3 v.)
Author: Forged in War
Author: Gary E. WeirPublisher: Naval Historical Center
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book is the first to analyze the partnership between the Navy, industry, and science forged by World War II and responsible for producing submarines in the United States in the period from 1940 through 1961. The naval-industrial complex was not the result of a single historical event. Neither was it a political-economic entity. Instead it was made up of many unique and distinct components, all of which developed simultaneously; each reflected the development, significance, and construction of a particular vessel or technology within its historical context. Together these components emerged from World War II as a network of distinct relationships linked together by the motives of national defense, mutual growth, and profit. None of the major players in the drama planned or predetermined the naval-industrial complex, and it did not conform to the views of any individual or confirm the value of a particular system of management. Instead it grew naturally in response to the political environment, strategic circumstances, and perceived national need, its character defined gradually not only by the demands of international conflict but also by the scores of talented people interested in the problems and possibilities of submarine warfare. Their combined efforts during this short period of time produced remarkable advances in nuclear propulsion, submerged speed, quieting, underwater sound, and weaponry, as well as a greater appreciation within the Navy and the shipbuilding industry for the ocean environment.This book won the Roosevelt Prize for naval history.