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The Craft Apprentice : From Franklin to the Machine Age in America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1988Copyright date: ©1988Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195363982
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Craft ApprenticeDDC classification:
  • 331.5/5
LOC classification:
  • HD4885.U5.R673 1986
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE: Benjamin Franklin's Legacy -- CHAPTER ONE: Chaos -- CHAPTER TWO: The Master's Authority -- CHAPTER THREE: A Cash Wage -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Crisis in Printing -- CHAPTER FIVE: Personal Relations -- CHAPTER SIX: The Limits of Reform -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Machine Age -- CHAPTER EIGHT: A Way Out? -- CHAPTER NINE: Lingering Traditions -- EPILOGUE: Civil War -- STATISTICAL APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: In this examination of the apprentice system in colonial America, W.J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories into a narrative that examines the varied experiences of individual apprentices and documents the massive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE: Benjamin Franklin's Legacy -- CHAPTER ONE: Chaos -- CHAPTER TWO: The Master's Authority -- CHAPTER THREE: A Cash Wage -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Crisis in Printing -- CHAPTER FIVE: Personal Relations -- CHAPTER SIX: The Limits of Reform -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Machine Age -- CHAPTER EIGHT: A Way Out? -- CHAPTER NINE: Lingering Traditions -- EPILOGUE: Civil War -- STATISTICAL APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

In this examination of the apprentice system in colonial America, W.J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories into a narrative that examines the varied experiences of individual apprentices and documents the massive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.

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