LEADER 00473nam 2200181zu 450 001 9910919835103321 005 20250108170850.0 035 $a(CKB)37151221500041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937151221500041 100 $a20250108|2024uuuu || | 101 0 $aita 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 10$aRimediazioni 210 $cAccademia University Press$d2024 700 $aD'Arienzo$b Grazia$01781772 912 $a9910919835103321 996 $aRimediazioni$94306621 997 $aUNINA LEADER 04662nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910970015203321 005 20251116150303.0 010 $a9786612356377 010 $a9780520926578 010 $a0520926579 010 $a9781282356375 010 $a1282356372 010 $a9781597347549 010 $a159734754X 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(Perlego)551115 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0075145 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 $elanguages of class in early industrial America /$fStephen P. Rice 205 $a1st ed. 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 $a9780520227811 311 0 $a0520227816 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 $aSocial classes in literature 615 0$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-$01895962 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970015203321 996 $aMinding the machine$94550173 997 $aUNINA