Author: Arthur Dundore GraeffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Industrial Berks County, 1748-1948
Author: Arthur Dundore GraeffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Hopewell Village
Author: Joseph E. WalkerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512808199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Before 1840 the American iron industry consisted in the main of small furnaces obliged by their need of the charcoal they used for fuel to locate in areas of heavy forest. Around these isolated furnaces grew communities of workers and their families, and of the farmers and service people who supplied their needs. In hundreds of forest clearings there could be found rural industrial settlements as distinctive in form and as important in product as the New England town or the Southern plantation. Hopewell Village tells the story of one such community, which, from 1771 to 1883, made iron in Southern Berks County, Pennsylvania. What little has been written about the iron villages has concentrated largely on the techniques of furnace operation. This book is concerned with the lives of the people of the iron plantations, from the wealthy ironmaster to the youngest indentured servant, and how they interacted with each other and with the outside world in work, religion, education, and play. Special attention has been given to the lives of minorities. While every part of the book is documented for the scholar-reader, the style of writing is plain enough to be read with meaning by those who have little background in the techniques either of the iron industry or historiography. Containing much original source material, tables, tabulations and numerous photographs, Hopewell Village should be of interest to students of industrial history, transportation, labor relations, and race relations, as well as to the general reader of American history.
Fingers of Steel
Author: Louise WehrlePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815319375
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress: Atlantic states, New Jersey to Florida
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Pennsylvania History
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices.".
Once a Cigar Maker
Author: Patricia Ann CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American cigar makers during the two decades that preceded mechanization of their work. In the process, she reconstructs the work culture, traditions, and daily lives of the male cigar makers who were members of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) and of the nonunion women who made cigars under a division of labor called the "team system." But Cooper not only examines the work lives of these men and women, she also analyzes their relationship to each other and to their employers during these critical years of the industry's transition from hand craft to mass production.
Two Centuries of Reading, Pa., 1748-1948
Author: Raymond Wolf AlbrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reading (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description