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Networked Machinists:

High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
  • ISBN-13: 9780801884719
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By David R. Meyer
  • Price: AUD $128.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2007
  • Format: Hardback 328 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Technology: general issues [TB]
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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.

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Machinists' TracesPart I: The Formation of the Networks, 1790-18201. Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks2. A Networked Community Built by Cotton Textile Machinists3. The Federal Armories and Private Firearms Firms Operate in Open NetworksPart II: The Elaboration of the Networks, 1820-18604. Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry5. Networked Machinists Build Locomotives6. Resilient Cotton Textile Machinist Networks7. The Cradles of the Metalworking Machinery Industry8. Machine Tool Networks9. Machinists' Networks Forge the Pivotal Producer Durables IndustryAbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

""Elegantly spanning the fields of geography, sociology, business history, and the history of technology, this book should readily appeal.""

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