Main entry:

Dawson, Andrew, 1948-

Title & Author:

Lives of the Philadelphia engineers : capital, class, and revolution, 1830-1890 / Andrew Dawson.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.

Description:

xii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Modern economic and social history series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.
1. Philadelphia Style -- 2. Inside the Workshop: Production, Authority and Resistance -- 3. Industrial Biography -- 4. A Subaltern Class, 1830-62 -- 5. Reconstructing the City -- 6. Apprenticeship, the Habits of Industry and the Public Schools -- 7. The Decline of Philadelphia Engineering and the Origin of Scientific Management -- Conclusion: Building Machines, Changing Worlds -- App. 1. Leading Machine Building Cities in the United States, 1840, 1860-1910 -- App. 2. Major Branches of Philadelphia Machine Building, 1850-80.

ISBN:

0754633969 (alk. paper)
9780754633969 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Machinery industry Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.
Machinery industry United States History.
Industries mécaniques Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire.
Industries mécaniques États-Unis Histoire.
Economic history.
Machinery industry.
Social conditions
Philadelphia (Pa.) Economic conditions 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Social conditions 19th century.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Modern economic and social history series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236274
Call No.: HD9705.U63 P43 2004
Status: Available