Minding the machine : languages of class in early industrial America /
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
©2004.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pntnn |
Sommario:
- 1. The antebellum popular discourse on mechanization
- 2. Head and hand : the mechanics' institute movement and the conception of class authority
- 3. Hand and head : the manual labor school movement
- 4. Mind and body : popular physiology and the health of a nation
- 5. Human and machine : steam boiler explosions and the making of the engineer.