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Category : Factories
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
Book Description
Mill & Factory
Author: Mill
Author: David MacaulayPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547348363
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
This illustrated look at nineteenth-century New England architecture was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey through a fictional mill town called Wicksbridge. With words and pictures, David Macaulay reveals fascinating details about the planning, construction, and operation of the mills—and gives us a powerful sense of the day-to-day lives of Americans in this era. “His imaginary mills in an imaginary town in Rhode Island, and the generations of people who built and ran them, come to life.” —The New York Times
The New England Mill Village, 1790-1860
Author: Gary KulikPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
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.
Factory Summers
Author: Guy DelislePublisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770466703
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father’s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy’s dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren’t close, and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad’s aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school–only to be told on the first day, “There are no jobs in animation.” Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall
Mill Supplies
Author: Loom and Spindle
Author: Harriet Jane Hanson RobinsonPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429045248
Category : Factory system
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Author Harriet Robinson (1825-1911), born Harriet Jane Hanson in Boston, offers a first person account of her life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in this 1898 work. Robinson moved with her widowed mother and three siblings to Lowell as the cotton industry was booming, and began working as a bobbin duffer at the age of ten for $2 a week. Her reflections of the life, some 60 years later, are unfailingly upbeat. She was educated, in public school, by private lesson, and in church. The community was tightly knit. She also had the opportunity to write poetry and prose for the factory girls' literary magazine The Lowell Offering. When mill girls returned to their rural family homes, she says, "...instead of being looked down upon as 'factory girls, ' they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them."
Annual Review
Author: Amoskeag
Author: Tamara K. HarevenPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874517361
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
How the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company shaped the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire during America's rise as a manufacturing power.
Brownson's Defence
Author: Orestes Augustus BrownsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Report
Author: Michigan Department of Labor (1883-1921).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factory inspection
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Reports for 1898-1908 include the Report of state inspection of factories, 6th-16th.