Forging America : ironworkers, adventurers, and the industrious revolution /

"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 p...

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Main Author: Bezís-Selfa, John, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
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