Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
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Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution

Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution

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Anthony F. C. Wallace (Author)  

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A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale's townspeople. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity. Illus., maps
Anthony F. C. Wallace is University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Revitalizations and Mazeways, Modernity and Mind, and The Social Context of Innovation, all published by the University of Nebraska Press.
  • Contributor: Anthony F. C. Wallace
  • Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • ISBN13: 9780803298538
  • Number of Pages: 554
  • Packaged Weight: 794
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Release Date: 2005-06-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Anthony F. C. Wallace is University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Revitalizations and Mazeways, Modernity and Mind, and The Social Context of Innovation, all published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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