Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dauphin County
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon
Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dauphin County
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon: in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Biographical and Genealogical
Author: William Henry EglePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385311381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF DAUPHIN AND LEBANON IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Author: WILLIAM HENRY. EGLEPublisher:
ISBN: 9780282393786
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Making America Corporate, 1870-1920
Author: Olivier ZunzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226994600
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
A study of the impact of corporate middle-level managers and white collar workers on American society and culture. An extended essay on social change based on case studies of a wide range of participants in the emerging corporate culture of the early 1900s. Zunz is in the history department at the U. of Virginia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Familie Allwein
Author: Duane F. AlwinPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984575414
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
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History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: W. H. EglePublisher:
ISBN: 9780832816420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: A-E. nos. 1-1600. 1907
Author: Stanislaus Vincent HenkelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Author: Luther Reily KelkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
The New England Bibliopolist, Or Notices of Books on American History, Biography, Genealogy, Etc
Author: Harrisburg Industrializes
Author: Gerald G. EggertPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
In 1850, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was a community like many others in the U. S., employing most of its citizens in trade and commerce. Unlike its larger neighbors, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Harrisburg had not yet experienced firsthand the Industrial Revolution. Within a decade, however, Harrisburg boasted a cotton textile mill, two blast furnaces and several iron rolling mills, a railroad car manufactory, and a machinery plant. This burst of industrial activity naturally left its mark on the community, by within two generations most industry had left Harrisburg, and its economic base was shifting toward white-collar governmental administration and services. Harrisburg Industrializes looks at this critical episode in Harrisburg's history to discover how the coming of the factory system affected the life of the community. Eggert begins with the earliest years of Harrisburg, describing its transformation from a frontier town to a small commercial and artisanal community. He identifies the early entrepreneurs who built the banking, commercial, and transportation infrastructure, which would provide the basis for industry at mid-century. Eggert then reconstructs the development of the principal manufacturing firms from their foundings, through the expansive post-Civil War era, to the onset of deindustrialization near the end of the century. Through census and company records, he is able to follow the next generation of craftsmen and entrepreneurs as well as the new industrial workers&—many of then minorities&—who came to the city after 1850. Eggert sees Harrisburg's experience with the factory system as &"second-stage,&" or imitative, industrialization, which was typical of many, if not most, communities that developed factory production. At those relatively few industrial centers (Lowell and Pittsburgh, for example) where new technologies arose and were aggressively impose on workers, the consequences were devastating, often causing alienation, rebellion, and repression. By contrast, at secondary centers like Harrisburg (or Reading, Scranton, or Wilmington), industrialization came later, was derivative rather than creative, was modest in scale, and focused on local and regional markets. Because the new factories did not compete with local crafts, few displaced artisans became factory hands. At the same time, an adequate supply of local native-born workers forestalled an influx of immigrants, so Harrisburg experienced little ethnic hostility. Ultimately, therefore, Eggert concludes that the introduction of an industrial order was much less disruptive in Harrisburg than in the major industrial sites, primarily because it did not alter so profoundly the existing economic and social order.