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- Title: Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America
- Author: William J. Rorabaugh
- ISBN: 9780195051896
- Page: 262
- Format: Paperback
[PDF] Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America | by ✓ William J. Rorabaugh, Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America, William J. Rorabaugh, Craft Apprentice From Franklin to the Machine Age in America The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice as did Mark Twain Horace Greeley William Dean Howells William L [PDF] Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America | by ✓ William J. Rorabaugh - Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America, Craft Apprentice From Franklin to the Machine Age in America The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential socia
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I read this book for my continuing project to self educate in labor history The early part of my education, this book and a book about merchant sailors, mostly cover ground predating the existence of labor unions as we know them today or even as we knew them in the 50s , but I understand why Professor Jamie Bronstein at New Mexico State covers this material it s impossible to understand labor unions i.e working people of the 20th century and today if we don t understand the conditions of working [...]
William J Rorabaugh s survey of craft apprenticeship s decline through the first half of the 19th century is contrasted with the concentration of capital in America s cities and the restriction of capital for small business owners , the rise of factory work and cash wages, and a rising professional class of bookkeepers, clerks, and clock punchers and the bourgeois attitudes of a growing material culture Adolescent individualism, reflected in the personal relationships of evangelical Christian re [...]