Contents: Preface; Introduction; Philadelphia style; Inside the workshop: production, authority and resistance; Industrial biography; A subaltern class, 1830-62; Reconstructing the city; Apprenticeship, the habits of industry, and the public schools; The decline of Philadelphia engineering and the origin of scientific management; Conclusion: building machines, changing worlds; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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