The Resource Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America, Stephen P. Rice
Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America, Stephen P. Rice
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- Summary
- "In this book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in American during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production." "Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners - and the oversees, foremen, or managers they employed - and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine." "Rice presents discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His narrative demonstrates that class is an much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 230 pages, 10 pages of plates
- Contents
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- The antebellum popular discourse on mechanization
- Head and hand: the Mechanics' Institute Movement and the conception of class authority
- Hand and head: the manual labor school movement
- Mind and body: popular physiology and the health of a nation
- Human and Machine: stream boiler explosions and the making of the engineer
- Isbn
- 9780520227811
- Label
- Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America
- Title
- Minding the machine
- Title remainder
- languages of class in early industrial America
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen P. Rice
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In this book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in American during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production." "Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners - and the oversees, foremen, or managers they employed - and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine." "Rice presents discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His narrative demonstrates that class is an much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rice, Stephen P.
- Dewey number
- 305.5/0973/09034
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HN90.S65
- LC item number
- R49 2004
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Social classes
- Industrial revolution
- Work in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Label
- Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America, Stephen P. Rice
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The antebellum popular discourse on mechanization -- Head and hand: the Mechanics' Institute Movement and the conception of class authority -- Hand and head: the manual labor school movement -- Mind and body: popular physiology and the health of a nation -- Human and Machine: stream boiler explosions and the making of the engineer
- Control code
- 53284926
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 230 pages, 10 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780520227811
- Isbn Type
- (cloth)
- Lccn
- 2003022846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America, Stephen P. Rice
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The antebellum popular discourse on mechanization -- Head and hand: the Mechanics' Institute Movement and the conception of class authority -- Hand and head: the manual labor school movement -- Mind and body: popular physiology and the health of a nation -- Human and Machine: stream boiler explosions and the making of the engineer
- Control code
- 53284926
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 230 pages, 10 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780520227811
- Isbn Type
- (cloth)
- Lccn
- 2003022846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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