Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890

ISBN-13: 9780367593865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 316 str.

Andrew Dawson

Opis

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century American business leaders as a social group and this study helps remedy the defect.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Philadelphia style; Inside the workshop: production, authority and resistance; Industrial biography; A subaltern class, 1830-62; Reconstructing the city; Apprenticeship, the habits of industry, and the public schools; The decline of Philadelphia engineering and the origin of scientific management; Conclusion: building machines, changing worlds; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Andrew Dawson