Networked Machinists - High-technology Industries in Antebellum America - Hardback - 2007

Examines the development of skilledlabor exchange systems, showing how individual metalworking sectors grew and moved outward. This work argues that the networked behavior of machinists within and across industries helps explain the rapid transformation of metalworking industries during the antebellum period.
Year of publication: 2007
Pagination: 328 pages, 30 black white halftones
Format: Hardback
Serie: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology