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• catalog abstract "One of the many changes that fundamentally altered nineteenth-century agrarian life was the shift in the dairy industry from home to factory butter and cheesemaking. In the early nineteenth century virtually all such work took place on the family farm. But after about 1860, production began to move from farms to local "crossroads factories." In Transforming Rural Life Sally McMurry takes a new look at the underlying causes of this development and its implications for the dairying families who were the mainstays of northeastern agriculture. Unlike previous books, which cast this transformation primarily in economic terms, McMurry's work emphasizes the role of social systems, cultural values, material culture, and family dynamics. She argues that a key factor in the change was simply the resistance of women to the burden of home cheesemaking (many households produced thousands of pounds every season). When the technology and economic conditions permitted, the transition to factory production took place quickly - not because farm families made more money, but because taking the milk to factories helped resolve domestic tensions. As a result, patterns of life began to change - freeing women for new tasks, encouraging increased reliance on the market economy and new cash crops, and emphasizing wage work, which in turn affected the reorganization of the domestic economy.".
• catalog contributor b7152410.
• catalog coverage "United States Rural conditions.".
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description "1. Agriculture in the Dairy Zone: The Farming System of Cheese Dairying, 1810-1860 -- 2. Sharp Dealings: Cheesemakers and the Market -- 3. The Social Organization of Cheesemaking Households -- 4. "Intense Interest and Anxiety": The Women's Work of Household Cheesemaking -- 5. The Social Dynamics of Household Dairying: Forces for Change -- 6. The Rise of the Factory -- 7. The Social Organization of Factory Work: Cheesemaking Becomes Men's Work -- 8. The Dairy Zone Embattled: Factory-Era Agriculture -- 9. Fragmentation and Reorientation: Dairying Households in the Factory Era -- 10. Rural Communities Transformed.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-280) and index.".
• catalog description "One of the many changes that fundamentally altered nineteenth-century agrarian life was the shift in the dairy industry from home to factory butter and cheesemaking. In the early nineteenth century virtually all such work took place on the family farm. But after about 1860, production began to move from farms to local "crossroads factories." In Transforming Rural Life Sally McMurry takes a new look at the underlying causes of this development and its implications for the dairying families who were the mainstays of northeastern agriculture.".
• catalog description "Unlike previous books, which cast this transformation primarily in economic terms, McMurry's work emphasizes the role of social systems, cultural values, material culture, and family dynamics. She argues that a key factor in the change was simply the resistance of women to the burden of home cheesemaking (many households produced thousands of pounds every season). When the technology and economic conditions permitted, the transition to factory production took place quickly - not because farm families made more money, but because taking the milk to factories helped resolve domestic tensions. As a result, patterns of life began to change - freeing women for new tasks, encouraging increased reliance on the market economy and new cash crops, and emphasizing wage work, which in turn affected the reorganization of the domestic economy.".
• catalog extent "xii, 291 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Transforming rural life.".
• catalog identifier "080184889X (hc : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Transforming rural life.".
• catalog isPartOf "Revisiting rural America".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "Transforming rural life.".
• catalog spatial "United States Rural conditions.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "306.3/64 20".
• catalog subject "Cheese industry United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Cheesemakers United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Dairy farmers United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Dairying Technological innovations United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Dairying United States Technological innovations History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "SF274.U6 M38 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Agriculture in the Dairy Zone: The Farming System of Cheese Dairying, 1810-1860 -- 2. Sharp Dealings: Cheesemakers and the Market -- 3. The Social Organization of Cheesemaking Households -- 4. "Intense Interest and Anxiety": The Women's Work of Household Cheesemaking -- 5. The Social Dynamics of Household Dairying: Forces for Change -- 6. The Rise of the Factory -- 7. The Social Organization of Factory Work: Cheesemaking Becomes Men's Work -- 8. The Dairy Zone Embattled: Factory-Era Agriculture -- 9. Fragmentation and Reorientation: Dairying Households in the Factory Era -- 10. Rural Communities Transformed.".
• catalog title "Transforming rural life : dairying families and agricultural change, 1820-1885 / Sally McMurry.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".