Family Time and Industrial Time : The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community
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Title
Family Time and Industrial Time : The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community
Description
Study of the complex relationship between family dynamics and demanding mill work. Takes as its focus the industrial city of Manchester, New Hampshire, its vast mill complexes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the worker families that inhabited its communities and spun its wheels of industrial production. A theoretical look at family in American social history. A discussion of oral history as historical form and methodology. Originally published by Cambridge University Press. From University Press of America: "The myth that industrialization broke down traditional family ties has long pervaded American society. Professor Hareven, a leading social historian, dispels this myth and illustrates how the family survived and became an active force in the modern factory. In this book, Hareven examines the multiple roles that the workers' families fulfilled in facilitating their adaptation to the pressures of changing work patterns and new modes of life in an industrial city. She reconstructs family and work patterns among immigrants as well as native textile laborers over two generations during a crucial period in the transformation of American industry from the late nineteenth century....A case study based on what was the world's largest textile plant - the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire - the book integrates a wide array of documentary evidence with oral testimony. It examines the lives of real people - the way they acted, the way they perceived their lives, and the kinds of decisions they made when pacing their lives in relation to the demands of the industrial system."
Creator
Hareven, Tamara K.
Source
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date
1982 (1993)
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
19th and 20th centuries; Manchester, New Hampshire
Contribution Form
Zotero
ISBN
9780521289146
Call Number
Num Pages
474
Place
New York, New York
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series Title
Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history
URL
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