American Industrial Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Industrial Archaeology write by Douglas C McVarish. This book was released on 2016-09-16. American Industrial Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive guide provides the reader with basic information of the most common types of structures, sites, and objects encountered in industrial archaeology. These include bridges, railroads, roads, waterways, several types of production and extraction factories, water and power generating facilities, and others. Each chapters contains a brief introduction to the technology or features of each class of installation, illustrations with characteristics that help identifying important elements of the type, and a glossary of common terms. Two chapters offer valuable guidance on researching industrial properties and landscapes. For students, avocational archaeologists, and cultural resource management surveys, this volume will be an essential reference.
Culture Change and the New Technology
Culture Change and the New Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture Change and the New Technology write by Paul A. Shackel. This book was released on 2013-06-29. Culture Change and the New Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harpers Ferry was one of America's earliest and most significant industrial communities - serving as an excellent example of the changing patterns of human relations that led to dramatic progress in work life and in domestic relations in modern times. In this well-illustrated book, Paul A. Shackel investigates the historical archaeology of Harpers Ferry, revealing the culture change and influence of new technology on workers and their families. He focuses on the contributions of laborers, craftsmen, and other subordinate groups to industrial progress, and examines ethnic and interracial development in an economy that was transformed from craft-based to industrial.
The Texture of Industry
The Texture of Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Texture of Industry write by Robert B. Gordon. This book was released on 1997-02-06. The Texture of Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual work-places and how people worked. Workers seldom wrote about their daily employment. However, they did leave behind their tools, products, shops, and factories as well as the surrounding industrial landscapes and communities. In this book, Gordon and Malone look at the industrialization of North America from the perspective of the industrial archaeologist. Using material evidence from such varied sites as Indian steatite quarries, automobile plants, and coal mines, they examine manufacturing technology, transportation systems, and the effects of industrialization on the land. Their research greatly expands our understanding of industry and focuses attention on the contributions of anonymous artisans whose skills shaped our industrial heritage.
The BP Book of Industrial Archaeology
The BP Book of Industrial Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The BP Book of Industrial Archaeology write by Neil Cossons. This book was released on 1993. The BP Book of Industrial Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An illustrated study of industrialization and its physical remains in Britain. The book describes how the process affected the nation's whole culture, and contains extensive references to surviving sites and structures, which are illustrated and pinpointed in maps and a gazetteer.
The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-class Life
The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-class Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-class Life write by Paul A. Shackel. This book was released on 2009. The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-class Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Shackel provides a compelling account of how an archaeology of working-class life can correct and enrich historical knowledge and improve public understanding of the American industrial experience."--Dean J. Saitta, University of Denver "A thorough, well-written overview of the issues confronting an archaeology of labor and the contributions historical archaeologists have made in addressing those issues. I would strongly recommend this book for anyone teaching historical archaeology or labor history at the university level."--Stephen A. Mrozowski, University of Massachusetts The winners write history. Thus, it is no surprise that the story of American industrialization is dominated by tales of unbridled technical and social progress. What happens, though, when we take a closer look at the archaeological record? That is the focus of Paul Shackel's new book, which examines labor and working-class life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century industrial America. Shackel offers an overview of a number of ongoing archaeology projects that are focused on reconstructing the capital-labor relations of the past. He demonstrates that worker unrest has been a constant feature of industrialization, as the fight for fair wages and decent working conditions has been a continual one. He shows how workers resisted conditions through sabotage and how new immigrants dealt with daily life in company housing; he even reveals important information about conditions in strike camps.
