Amoskeag: Life And Work In An American Factory-City
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the heart of Manchester, New Hampshire, stood the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company — once the largest cotton textile mill in the world — and Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City chronicles the remarkable human story behind its rise and fall through the voices of the men and women who lived it. Drawing on an extraordinary archive of oral histories and photographs, Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach reconstruct the daily rhythms, triumphs, and hardships of a working-class community whose identity was inseparable from the great mill complex that dominated their lives from the mid-nineteenth century until the corporation's devastating closure in 1936. The work stands as a landmark of social history and documentary scholarship, weaving together personal testimony, historical analysis, and stunning visual evidence to argue that the factory was not merely a place of labor, but the very foundation of a unique urban culture. Hareven's meticulous research, paired with Langenbach's powerful architectural photography, presents a portrait of American industrialism that is both elegiac and unflinching — a testament to a vanished world that raises urgent questions about community, memory, and the human cost of economic transformation.
Author: Tamara K. Hareven And Randolph Langenbach
Format: Paperback
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Manchester, New Hampshire, stood the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company — once the largest cotton textile mill in the world — and Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City chronicles the remarkable human story behind its rise and fall through the voices of the men and women who lived it. Drawing on an extraordinary archive of oral histories and photographs, Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach reconstruct the daily rhythms, triumphs, and hardships of a working-class community whose identity was inseparable from the great mill complex that dominated their lives from the mid-nineteenth century until the corporation's devastating closure in 1936. The work stands as a landmark of social history and documentary scholarship, weaving together personal testimony, historical analysis, and stunning visual evidence to argue that the factory was not merely a place of labor, but the very foundation of a unique urban culture. Hareven's meticulous research, paired with Langenbach's powerful architectural photography, presents a portrait of American industrialism that is both elegiac and unflinching — a testament to a vanished world that raises urgent questions about community, memory, and the human cost of economic transformation.