Most wonderful machine: mechanization and social change in Berkshire paper making, 1801-1885

Table of Contents

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