Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885

Judith A. McGaw

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Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page ix)
List of Tables (page xi)
Acknowledgments (page xiii)
Abbreviations (page xvii)
Introduction (page 3)
PART I: BEFORE THE MACHINE
- CHAPTER 1. A Fine Place for Paper Making: Berkshire County, 1799-1801 (page 15)
- CHAPTER 2. Zenas Crane's Baggage: The Paper-Making Tradition, 1801-1820 (page 38)
- CHAPTER 3. A Decade of Preparation: The 1820s (page 59)
PART II: THE MACHINE
- CHAPTER 4. Mechanical Paper Makers: The Evolution of Paper Machinery, 1799-1885 (page 93)
- CHAPTER 5. The Community of Mechanizers: Berkshire Paper Mill Owners, 1827-1857 (page 117)
- CHAPTER 6. Local Conditions and Mechanization: Machines in the Berkshires, 1827-1885 (page 158)
PART III: AFTER THE MACHINE
- CHAPTER 7. The Mill Towns Transformed: Technological Change After Mechanization, 1857-1885 (page 189)
- CHAPTER 8. Men of Substance, Order, and Power: Owners of Mechanized Paper Mills, 1858-1885 (page 234)
- CHAPTER 9. Machines and the Working Classes: Male Paper Mill Employees, 1827-1885 (page 280)
- CHAPTER 10. "Mere Cogs to the Wheels": Female Paper Workers and the "Separate Sphere," 1827-1885 (page 335)
Epilogue and Conclusion (page 375)
Appendix A: Chronology of Berkshire County Paper Mills and Mill Ownership, 1801-1885 (page 383)
Appendix B: Mill Owners, Success, and Failure: Further Data (page 401)
Appendix C: Mills, Machines, Output, and Capital: Local Data (page 407)
Bibliography (page 413)
Index (page 427)

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AHR	94.4 (Oct. 1989): 1171-172	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198910%2994%3A4%3C1171%3AMWMMAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
JAH	75.2 (Sep. 1988): 604-605	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198910%2994%3A4%3C1171%3AMWMMAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
RAH	16.1 (Mar. 1988): 15-18	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28198803%2916%3A1%3C15%3ABC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
JEH	47.4 (Dec. 1987): 1044-1046	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198712%2947%3A4%3C1044%3AMWMMAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
ISIS	79.2 (Jun. 1988): 299-301	http://www.jstor.org/stable/233630
BHR	62.2 (Summer 1988): 324-325	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3116008
JER	7.4 (Winter 1987): 417-418	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3123736
AAAPSS	505 (Sep. 1989): 192-193	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1047313
SSS	21.1 (Feb. 1991): 191	http://www.jstor.org/stable/285335
JSocH	22.2 (Winter 1988): 368-369	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3788231

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Published: c1987

Publisher: Princeton University Press

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