The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920

by Daniel T. Rodgers

Book Overview

"Rodgers's book is a study of how technology affects ideas. That is the issue to which Rodgers always returns: how did men and women react to the economy of unprecedented plenty that the 19th-century revolution in power and machines had produced? . . . This is certainly . . . one of the most refreshing and penetrating analyses of the relation of diverse levels of 19th-century culture that it has been my pleasure to read in a long time."--Carl N. Degler,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226723526
• ISBN13: 9780226723525
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"