This award-winning study analyzes in close detail the experiences of glassworkers as mechanization transformed their trade from a highly skilled art to a semiskilled occupation. Arguing that changes in the organization of work altered the lifestyle and political outlook of the glassworker, Joan Scott uses local archival materials and demographic records to reconstruct the experience of ordinary workingmen.
| ISBN: | 9780674354418 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 1980 |
| Author: | Joan Wallach Scott |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Urban communities |