Coming of Industrial Order
Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860Jonathan Prude
University of Massachusetts Press, 1999
This is a study of industrialization in the antebellum New England countryside. More specifically, it is an investigation of pre-Civil War industrialization in two contiguous south-central Massachusetts townships, Dudley and Oxford, and in a third community, Webster, which was carved from them in 1832.
