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100	1		_aRice, Stephen P.
245	1	0	_aMinding the Machine : _bLanguages of Class in Early Industrial America.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2004.
264		4	_c©2005.
300			_a1 online resource (256 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Antebellum Popular Discourse on Mechanization -- 2. Head and Hand: The Mechanics' Institute Movement and the Conception of Class Authority -- 3. Hand and Head: The Manual Labor School Movement -- 4. Mind and Body: Popular Physiology and the Health of a Nation -- 5. Human and Machine: Steam Boiler Explosions and the Making of the Engineer -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
520			_aIn this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America 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. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. 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 overseers, 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 fascinating 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 eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aIndustrial revolution -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
650		0	_aSocial classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
650		0	_aSocial classes in literature.
650		0	_aWork in literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aRice, Stephen P. _tMinding the Machine : Languages of Class in Early Industrial America _dBerkeley : University of California Press,c2004 _z9780520227811
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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