Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in Antebellum America
Meyer, David R.
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Clean dark blue boards with gilt print along spine. Extremities are neat. Top corner of rear board is bumped. Binding is tight. Interior is clean and clear. Dust-jacket is in excellent shape. Seller Inventory # 016728
Bibliographic Details
Title: Networked Machinists: High Technology ...
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
A century and a half before the modern information technology revolution, machinists in the eastern United States created the nation's first high technology industries. In iron foundries and steam-engine works, locomotive works, machine and tool shops, textile-machinery firms, and firearms manufacturers, these resourceful workers pioneered the practice of dispersing technological expertise through communities of practice.
In the first book to study this phenomenon since the 1916 classic, English and American Tool Builders, David R. Meyer 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.
David R. Meyer teaches sociology and urban studies at Brown University.
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