Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology : : The Challenge of Change / / Merritt Roe Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Merritt Roe,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)

Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Regional Interests and Military Needs: Founding the "Mother Arsenal, " 1794-1801
• Chapter II. The Craft Origins of Production, 1798-1816
• Chapter III. Production, Labor, and Management, 1801-1816
• Chapter IV. Early Manufacturing Techniques, 1816
• Chapter V. Cooperation between the Armories, 1815-1829
• Chapter VI. James Stubblefield: Virginia Entrepreneur, 1815-1829
• Chapter VII. John H. Hall: Yankee in the Garden, 1819- 1841
• Chapter VIII. Hall and the American Systems, 1824–1840
• Chapter IX. Politics and Technology, 1829-1859
• Chapter X. The Community in Crisis, 1859-1861
• Chapter XI. Cultural Conditions and Technological Change: In Retrospect
• Bibliography
• Index