| Description |
xiii, 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Working the Land in Preindustrial Europe and America -- Ch. 2. Artisans in the Shop: European Traditions and American Changes in the Eighteenth Century -- Ch. 3. Women and Work Before the Factory -- Ch. 4. Origins of Industrialization -- Ch. 5. The Birth of the Factory -- Ch. 6. Iron, Steam, and Rails -- Ch. 7. Machines and Their Mass Production -- Ch. 8. Machines on the Farm and in the Forest, 1800-1920 -- Ch. 9. Americans Confront a Mechanical World, 1800-1900 -- Ch. 10. The Second Industrial Revolution -- Ch. 11. Technology and the Modern Corporation -- Ch. 12. Technology and the First Arms Race, 1800-1918 -- Ch. 13. The Impact of Technology on Women's Work -- Ch. 14. The New Factory -- Ch. 15. Innovation, the Great Depression, and the Automobile, 1918-1940 -- Ch. 16. Mechanizing Sight and Sound -- Ch. 17. Technology and the Origins of Mass Culture -- Ch. 18. Airplanes and Atoms in Peace and War -- Ch. 19. The Postwar Advance of Technology |
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Ch. 20. Modern Americans in a Technological World -- Afterword: Into the Future? Government Policy and Technological Innovation: Lessons from the Past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Szostak, Richard William, 1959-
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| LC no. |
94005332 |
| ISBN |
0138986444 |
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