The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America - Couverture rigide

Rorabaugh, W. J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195036476 ISBN 13 : 9780195036473

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1986

Synopsis

The apprentice system was a key element in the American economy and society before the Civil War. With the coming of industrialization, the craft system gradually disappeared, but the book gives a vivid glimpse of every day life for American youth before the Civil War.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"A first rate piece of scholarship and must reading for students of early American history."--The William and Mary Quarterly

"A vivid and vigorously argued history of apprenticeship in America."--Journal of Social History

"[A] scholarly and well-documented book....Absorbing and illuminating."--Washington Post Book World

"[An] engaging history."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A highly engaging and insightful study of how the political, commercial, and industrial revolutions in America transformed the lives of those on the bottom rung of the craft ladder....An important contribution to the understanding of the artisan experience in America."--Business History Review

"Americana at its fascinating best....The story of apprenticeship in the US offers a fascinating perspective on the nation during its formative years. Rorabaugh brings these seminal decades alive with vivid first-hand accounts drawn from letters, diaries, memoirs and other primary sources....An original and engaging contribution to scholarship with appeal that goes well beyond an academic readership."--Kirkus Reviews

"One of those rare studies that exposes something grand by focusing on something small....This superb volume makes several significant contributions."--History of Education Quarterly

"The best recent treatment of the decline and fall of an institution once pivotal to American life and labor....In this rich, insightful, and imaginative study, W.J. Rorabaugh has finally given the subject the direct attention it deserves."--Journal of Economic History

"Using hundreds of autobiographies, diaries, and letters, Rorabaugh...pieces together the broad outlines of the apprentice's experience and the impact of the American Revolution, the ideology of equality, technological changes, and the Civil War on the relations between masters and apprentices....Should be read by all students interested in the history of labor and education."--Choice

Présentation de l'éditeur

The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, Willian Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes in the lives of craft apprentices. In this book, W. J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories, gleaned from numerous letters, diaries, and memoirs, into a narrative that examines the varied experiences of individual apprentices and documents the massive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195036476
• ISBN 13: 9780195036473
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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