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They worked regular : craft, labor, and family in the industrial community of Virginius Island / Matthew M. Palus and Paul A. Shackel.

Title: They worked regular : craft, labor, and family in the industrial community of Virginius Island / Matthew M. Palus and Paul A. Shackel.
Author: Palus, Matthew M., 1971-
Publication: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.

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Shackel, Paul A.

Description

xxiii, 147 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Virginius Island is a landscape of ruins, a shadow if its former industrial might. Today, the island consists of approximately twelve acres and numerous remains of industries and domestic structures maintained by Harpers Ferry National Historical Park for the purpose of interpreting industry. Archaeological investigations over the past several decades have focused on recovering remnants of its industry, while recent work has also examined the lives of the workers and their families." "The history of this West Virginia island is linked closely with the nineteenth-century developments that occurred at Harpers Ferry and the rest of the industrializing Mid-Atlantic region. This book addresses the memory of the small island's industrial community, showing the relationship between changes in industrial management techniques and the changes experienced in daily life by workers and their community between 1800 and 1930"--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-144) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Remembering the landscape -- Craft to paternal industry on Virginius Island, 1803-1854 -- Paternal industry fades, 1855-1890 -- The pulp mill years: Virginius Island transforms into a single-industry community, 1889-1936 -- Working life on Virginius Island in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Appendix: Minimum vessel analyses for the three Virginius Island sites.

ISBN

1572334444 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005011893

OCLC

60188031

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Harvard Library