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David R. Meyer - Networked Machinists, Inbunden

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Networked Machinists

High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America

Av David R. Meyer

Del i serien Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

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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.
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David R. Meyer teaches sociology and urban studies at Brown University.

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This study contains a wealth of information and surprises. Choice 2007 An excellent, up-to-date, synthetic volume with strong themes and evidence. -- Ross Thomson EH.Net 2007 An excellent synthesis of decades of scholarship. -- Anne Kelly Knowles Technology and Culture 2007 This book will be an important volume for specialists. -- Lawrence A. Peskin Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Meyer's book should prove invaluable to scholars of early American industrialization, and particularly to historians of technology. -- Sean Patrick Adams American Historical Review 2008 A first-rate scholarly synthesis that also demonstrates considerable new research. -- David A. Hounshell Journal of American History 2008 Elegantly spanning the fields of geography, sociology, business history, and the history of technology, this book should readily appeal. -- Angelina Long Industrial Archaeology 2007

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