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2 books match the query 'Prude, Jonathan'
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.
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Working-Class America
Essays on Labor, Community, and American SocietyEdited by Michael H. Frisch and Daniel J. Walkowitz
University of Illinois Press, 1983
At the time of its original publication, Working-Class America represented the new labor history par excellence. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during a pivotal time in the nation's history and within the discipline. Moving beyond historical-sociological analyses, the authors take readers inside the lives of the real men and women behind the statistics. The result is a classic collection focused on the human dimensions of the field, one valuable not only as a resource for historiography but as a snapshot of workers and their concerns in the 1980s.
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