Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America /

Main Author: Rice, Stephen P. 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The antebellum popular discourse on mechanization
  • 2. Head and hand : the mechanics' institute movement and the conception of class authority
  • 3. Hand and head : the manual labor school movement
  • 4. Mind and body : popular physiology and the health of a nation
  • 5. Human and machine : steam boiler explosions and the making of the engineer.