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Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
David R. Meyer
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Hardback. economy. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 328 pages, 30, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801884719
SKU
V9780801884719
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About David R. Meyer
David R. Meyer teaches sociology and urban studies at Brown University.
Reviews for Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
This study contains a wealth of information and surprises. Choice 2007 An excellent, up-to-date, synthetic volume with strong themes and evidence.
Ross Thomson EH.Net 2007 An excellent synthesis of decades of scholarship.
Anne Kelly Knowles Technology and Culture 2007 This book will be an important volume for specialists.
Lawrence A. Peskin Register of the Kentucky Historical Society ... Read more
Ross Thomson EH.Net 2007 An excellent synthesis of decades of scholarship.
Anne Kelly Knowles Technology and Culture 2007 This book will be an important volume for specialists.
Lawrence A. Peskin Register of the Kentucky Historical Society ... Read more