| Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution Contributor(s): Wallace, Anthony F. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803298536 ISBN-13: 9780803298538 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: A celebrated triumph of historiography, "Rockdale" tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale's townspeople. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 974.814 |
| LCCN: 2004028371 |
| Physical Information: 1.26" H x 6.24" W x 8.88" (1.72 lbs) 554 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale's townspeople. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity. Anthony F. C. Wallace is University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Revitalizations and Mazeways, Modernity and Mind, and The Social Context of Innovation, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. |
