Author: PRUDE, Jonathan.
Title: The Coming of Industrial Order. Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts 1810 - 1860.
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. Ex-libris stamp to title-page. B/W illus. Provides "...a case study of antebellum industrialization in several adjacent communities in rural Massachusetts". Examines two areas of tension within these communities: "...within certain manufacturing establishments - especially cotton & woolen "manufactories" - and between these mills & the communities in which they were located". 364pp.

Keywords: history america united states 19th nineteenth social political politics policy historical economy economics business industry massachusetts industrialization industrialisation cotton woolen mill century political science