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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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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.