Amoskeag (Signed) (First Printing) Life and Work in an American Factory-City

Hareven, Tamara K. & Randolph Langenbach

ISBN 10: 0874517362 / ISBN 13: 9780874517361

Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, MA, 1978

About this Item

Library Of New England; 5.25 X 1.2 X 8 inches; 394 pages; B&W photographs. Signed dedication from author Tamara Hareven on a prelim page. Some minor finger rubbing smudges on the exterior edges of textblock. Light to moderate creasing on spine. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amoskeag (Signed) (First Printing) Life and Work in an American Factory-City
• Publisher: University Press of New England, Hanover, MA
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874517362
• ISBN 13: 9780874517361
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

First published in 1978, this classic book, through vivid oral histories and historic photographs, documents the social and cultural impact of the industry during America’s rise as a manufacturing power. For nearly a century, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was chief architect of the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire. In the early 1900s, it was the largest textile mill in the world, employing 17,000; its red brick facade stretched for nearly a mile along the Merrimack River and its payroll drew immigrants by the thousands. In their own words, laborers, foremen, managers, and town residents paint a detailed portrait of the mill’s nearly feudal dominance of every aspect of their lives and offer their response to this existence, with fierce pride and an unshakable sense of community. When competition, labor unrest, and obsolescence caught up with the mill in 1936, a weaver recalls, “the mills went out and the world stopped for everybody.”

About the Author

TAMARA K. HAREVEN is Unidel Professor of Family Studies and History, University of Delaware, and Visiting Scholar in sociology at Harvard University. She is founder of the Journal of Family History and President of the Social Science History Association. A pioneer and foremost leader in the development of the field of family history, Dr. Hareven is the author of several books, and most notably Family Time and Industrial Time (1982) and Aging and Generational Relations (1995).

RANDOLPH LANGENBACH is a designer, architectural historian, and photographer. His documentation of, and historical research on, nineteenth-century industrial cities have become well known in both the United States and Great Britain. His articles and photographs have been published in numerous books and magazines; and his book, A Future From the Past, was published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has produced an exhibition in London on British industrial towns, and was actively involved in planning the new national park in Manchester’s sister city, Lowell, Massachusettes.