Networked Machinists - High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America

Informationen zum Autor David R. Meyer teaches sociology and urban studies at Brown University. Klappentext David R. Meyer freshly examines the development of skilled-labor exchange systems, showing how individual metalworking sectors grew and moved outward. He argues that the networked behavior of machinists within and across industries helps explain the rapid transformation of metalworking industries during the antebellum period, building a foundation for the sophisticated, mass production/consumer industries that figured so prominently in the later U.S. economy. economy.

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• Authors: David R Meyer, David R. Meyer
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2007
• EAN: 9780801884719
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8471-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries