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- catalog abstract ""Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezis-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentration of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution. Through means ranging from religious exhortation to force, ironmasters encouraged or compelled workers - free, indentured, and enslaved - to adopt new work styles and standards of personal industry."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13073050.
- catalog coverage "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezis-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentration of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution. Through means ranging from religious exhortation to force, ironmasters encouraged or compelled workers - free, indentured, and enslaved - to adopt new work styles and standards of personal industry."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-267) and index.".
- catalog description "Mastered by the furnace -- Part 1: Iron and empire: the colonial era -- Molding men -- Passages through the ledgers -- The best poor man's country -- Part 2: Iron and nation: the early republic -- Industrial slavery domesticated -- Manufacturing free labor.".
- catalog extent "xi, 279 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801439930 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "338.4/76691/09730903 21".
- catalog subject "HD9515 .B478 2004".
- catalog subject "Iron industry and trade United States History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Work ethic United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mastered by the furnace -- Part 1: Iron and empire: the colonial era -- Molding men -- Passages through the ledgers -- The best poor man's country -- Part 2: Iron and nation: the early republic -- Industrial slavery domesticated -- Manufacturing free labor.".
- catalog title "Forging America : ironworkers, adventurers, and the industrious revolution / John Bezís-Selfa.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".