Authors: Anthony F. C. Wallace, Anthony Wallace
ISBN-13: 9780803298538, ISBN-10: 0803298536
Format: Paperback
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska Paperback
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Anthony F. C. Wallace is University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Revitalizations and Mazeways, Modernity and Mind, and The Social Context of Innovation, all published by the University of Nebraska Press.
A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale’s townspeople. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity.
Pt. 1 | Rockdale in 1850 : the climax of a way life | |
Ch. I | Sweet, quiet Rockdale | 3 |
Ch. II | A town of mules and widows | 33 |
Pt. 2 | Rockdale from 1825 to 1835 : the creating of a way of life | |
Ch. III | The assembling of the industrialists | 73 |
Ch. IV | The machines, their operatives, and the fabrics | 124 |
Ch. V | The inventors of the machines | 186 |
Pt. 3 | Rockdale from 1835 to 1850 : the struggle for control of a way of life | |
Ch. VI | The enlightenment's last campaign | 243 |
Ch. VII | The evangelical counterattack | 296 |
Ch. VIII | The emergence of Christian industrialism | 350 |
Pt. 4 | Rockdale from 1850 to 1865 : the transcending of a way of life | |
Ch. IX | Marching to millennium | 401 |
App | Paradigmatic processes in culture change | 477 |