LEADER 05491nam 2201081Ia 450 001 9910783388603321 005 20230207223513.0 010 $a0-520-92657-9 010 $a9786612356377 010 $a1-282-35637-2 010 $a1-59734-754-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520926578 035 $a(CKB)1000000000024194 035 $a(EBL)223631 035 $a(OCoLC)475928573 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000203237 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199561 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203237 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10258303 035 $a(PQKB)11626074 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055914 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223631 035 $a(OCoLC)56733672 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30551 035 $a(DE-B1597)519927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520926578 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10068598 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235637 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000024194 100 $a20031016d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMinding the machine$b[electronic resource] $elanguages of class in early industrial America /$fStephen P. Rice 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. ;$aLondon $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22781-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-221) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Antebellum Popular Discourse on Mechanization --$t2. Head and Hand: The Mechanics' Institute Movement and the Conception of Class Authority --$t3. Hand and Head: The Manual Labor School Movement --$t4. Mind and Body: Popular Physiology and the Health of a Nation --$t5. Human and Machine: Steam Boiler Explosions and the Making of the Engineer --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shop owners-and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed-and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle. 606 $aSocial classes$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aIndustrial revolution$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWork in literature 606 $aSocial classes in literature 610 $aantebellum america. 610 $acivil war. 610 $aclass conflict. 610 $aclass formation. 610 $aclass relations. 610 $aeconomic history. 610 $aengineer. 610 $aexplosions. 610 $afactory production. 610 $afactory workers. 610 $aforemen. 610 $aindustrial development. 610 $aindustrial revolution. 610 $alabor industrial relations. 610 $alabor movements. 610 $alabor. 610 $amanagement. 610 $amanual labor. 610 $amarxism. 610 $amechanic institutes movement. 610 $amechanization. 610 $amiddle class. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $apoverty. 610 $arailroad. 610 $asteam boiler. 610 $asteamboat. 610 $aunited states. 610 $awage workers. 610 $awealth gap. 610 $aworking class. 610 $aworking conditions. 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 615 0$aIndustrial revolution$xHistory 615 0$aWork in literature. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 676 $a305.5097309034 700 $aRice$b Stephen P$g(Stephen Patrick),$f1963-$01484904 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783388603321 996 $aMinding the machine$93703741 997 $aUNINA