Persisting Traditions: Artisan Work and Culture in Bangor, Maine, 1820-1860
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Description
This book is about the work and culture of artisans in Bangor, Maine, during the decades of early industrialization. The central question posed here is how did these artisans, these highly skilled housewrights and shipwrights, tinsmiths and blacksmiths, carriage makers and cabinet makers, coopers and cordwainers, iron founders and other skilled workers, respond to the emerging industrial system?
ISBN
0815319363
Publication Date
1995
Publisher
Garland Publishing
City
New York
Keywords
Artisans, Small businesses, Industries, Work ethic, Maine, Bangor
Disciplines
Labor History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Toner, Carol N., "Persisting Traditions: Artisan Work and Culture in Bangor, Maine, 1820-1860" (1995). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 271.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/271