Description
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Previous books on the industrialization of America have focused either on the industrial revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century or on the rise of big industry in the second. In this groundbreaking study Licht provides a new perspective by focusing on industrialization first as a product and then as an agent of change. As population expansion and greater market activity fueled manufacture, he explains, industrialization led to greater social and economic developments as well as crises that required a more administered political economic order.
Author: Walter Licht
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 05/19/1995
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780801850141
ISBN10: 0801850142
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Political Science | General
About the Author
Walter Licht is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century, Work Sights: Industrial Philadelphia, 1890-1950, and Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950.