Factories

Early Industrialization
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=604

Disruption of the Artisan System of Labor
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=608

Introduction of the Factory System
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=609

1840: Map of Population Engaged in Manufacturing and Trade
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHYPER/DETOC/census/mfr1.jpg

Workers World in Antebellum America
Inventing America
http://www.wwnorton.com/inventing/interface/ch12/ch12_features.htm

Samuel Slater: Father of American Industrial Revolution
http://www.woonsocket.org/slater.htm

The Treatment of the Help in Those Days Was Cruel: Hiram Munger Remembers Factory Life
Hiram Munger
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5830/

Invention Factories
Tsongas Industrial History Center
University of Massachuetts Lowell Graduate School of Education
http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/programs/pdfs/invfact.pdf

 

Updated 16 October 2007 L. Averill

Submitted by webmaster on January 1, 2008 - 3:33pm.