Frederick C Gamst
Biographic Data
| ID | 98515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick C Gamst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamst |
| SIGNATURE | GAMST F C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Blood and Fire
Work, Sociology of
The Thought of Work by John W.Budd. Ithaca, NY
July 2003 in Hamburg
Conference ReviewATTENTION: Due to copy-right no online publication is provided
A Most Magnificent Machine
Reviewed by: A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862 Frederick C. Gamst (bio) A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862. By Craig Miner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Pp. xv+325. $34.95. Craig Miner’s sociocultural history of antebellum American railroads tells the story of the railroad’s imprint on a developing continental nation. Americans’ positive and negative reactions to rail…
The Dream Fields of Florida
Boston's Back Bay
Rail, Steam, and Speed
Reviewed by: Rail, Steam, and Speed: The “Rocket” and the Birth of Steam Locomotion Frederick C. Gamst (bio) Rail, Steam, and Speed: The “Rocket” and the Birth of Steam Locomotion. By Christopher McGowan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. x+379. $29.95. Christopher McGowan draws together many sources on the British ur-history of the locomotive (at first, only an adjective) steam engine and its consequences. Among backgrounds to pione…
California Farmin
Beasts of the Field:. Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Richard S. Street. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Photographing Farmworkers in California. Richard S. Street. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004
Headhunters
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market. William Finlay and James E. Coverdill. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966. Joshua B. Freeman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001 [1989].The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy. Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and Melinda F. Wiggins, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.The Trouble with Community: …
Set Up Running
Despite the graphic depiction of on-the-job problems and irregular hours away from home, accounts of steam railroading often seem adventurous, even romantic, to those who have never toiled in midsummer heat for sixteen hours in the cab of a steam engine. John W. Orr's Set Up Running will not disappoint the reader of railroadiana. The title comes from "making a [seniority] date" as an engineman/locomotive engineer after one's promotion to that cra…
Craft Seniority
Some Recollections of Herb Appiebaum, Royal Blue Anthropologist
Bayerns Weg zur Eisenbahn
Reviewed by: Bayerns Weg zur Eisenbahn: Joseph von Baader und die Frühzeit der Eisenbahn in Bayern, 1800 bis 1835* Frederick C. Gamst (bio) Bayerns Weg zur Eisenbahn: Joseph von Baader und die Frühzeit der Eisenbahn in Bayern, 1800 bis 1835. By Stephan Deutinger. St. Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 1997. Pp. 340; illustrations, notes/references, bibliography, index. DM 38. Joseph Ritter von Baader (1763–1835) is a pioneer in railroad history almost unknown…
Early American Railroads
Meanings of Work
The Cohesion of Oppression
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The Context and Significance of America's First Railroad, on Boston's Beacon Hill
On Boston's Beacon Hill, around 1805, the first railroad in the United States was constructed and operated. The Beacon Hill Railroad (BHR), as it is labeled in this article, was a railroad in both the technological and operational senses. It was one example along a continuum of the common evolution of British and American railroads. As such, the BHR was part of the ordinary British development of railroads from about 1600 through 1830, before the…
Sacred Void
Foundations of Social Theory
James S. Coleman. 1990 Foundations of Social Theory Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, xviii. 993 pp
Peasantries and Elites without Urbanism
Agricultural or nonindustrial civilization is customarily defined by social scientists in terms of urbanism and a dual social organization. Such a definition is not recent and, like many other concepts in Western thought, can be traced back to the Greeks, to Strabo for example, if one wishes to do so. Another way of considering the definition is in terms of two complementary societal components, neither existing without the other. One component i…
Rethinking Leach's structural analysis of color and instructional categories in traffic control signals1
This is a critique of Edmund Leach's structural analysis of color and related instructional categories in the railway signals of English-speaking peoples and in the highway signals which have been derived from them. Leach's analysis of the relationship between culture and nature in terms of the relationship between colored traffic control signals and the spectrum of visible light is not supported by industrial fieldwork or documentary analysis. T…
An Integrating View of the Underlying Premises of an Industrial Ethnology in the United States and Canada
As an introductory frame for the papers that follow concerning industrial ethnology in the United States and Canada, this paper presents information contributing to an understanding of the ethnological study of modern and its occupations. The underlying characteristics of industrial ethnological inquiry are discussed as are the nature of industry (its subject matter) and the importance of the study of industrial work for an understanding of indus…
Measuring Peasant Attitudes to Modernization
A photographic test for attitude measurement (PHOTAM) based on the projective principle provides an effective means for evaluating objectively as well as subjectively attitude profiles of modernizing peasants as demonstrated in a study of agricultural change in Campeche, Mexico. PHOTAM involves ten steps: (1) reconnaissance to provide an empathetic overview of the peasant group, (2) a priori selection of attitudes postulated for resolving the res…
Craft Seniority
Belief and Experience Among the Sidamo
St. Claire
Modernization and Development
Peasantries and Elites without Urbanism
Agricultural or nonindustrial civilization is customarily defined by social scientists in terms of urbanism and a dual social organization. Such a definition is not recent and, like many other concepts in Western thought, can be traced back to the Greeks, to Strabo for example, if one wishes to do so. Another way of considering the definition is in terms of two complementary societal components, neither existing without the other. One component i…
Development and Change
British anthropologists and African railwaymen
R. D. Grillo. African Railwaymen: Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. xi + 215 pp. Figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $15.00 (cloth)
Land Tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia
Rethinking Leach's structural analysis of color and instructional categories in traffic control signals1
This is a critique of Edmund Leach's structural analysis of color and related instructional categories in the railway signals of English-speaking peoples and in the highway signals which have been derived from them. Leach's analysis of the relationship between culture and nature in terms of the relationship between colored traffic control signals and the spectrum of visible light is not supported by industrial fieldwork or documentary analysis. T…
Measuring Peasant Attitudes to Modernization
A photographic test for attitude measurement (PHOTAM) based on the projective principle provides an effective means for evaluating objectively as well as subjectively attitude profiles of modernizing peasants as demonstrated in a study of agricultural change in Campeche, Mexico. PHOTAM involves ten steps: (1) reconnaissance to provide an empathetic overview of the peasant group, (2) a priori selection of attitudes postulated for resolving the res…
Ethnology
On “Abyssinia,” a Response to Bender
An Integrating View of the Underlying Premises of an Industrial Ethnology in the United States and Canada
As an introductory frame for the papers that follow concerning industrial ethnology in the United States and Canada, this paper presents information contributing to an understanding of the ethnological study of modern and its occupations. The underlying characteristics of industrial ethnological inquiry are discussed as are the nature of industry (its subject matter) and the importance of the study of industrial work for an understanding of indus…
Ethnology
The Hoghead
The Shaping of Somali Society
Mail Questionnaire Efficiency and The Method of Industrial Ethnology
President's Report to the S.A.W. Membership
Commentary For The Session
The Dimenssion Of Time In Industrial Work Organization Part II
The Dimension Of Time In Industrial Work Organization
The Industrial Relations Of Rail Unions In Great Britain And West Germany
Peter Seglow, Wolfgang Streeck And Patricia Wallace, 1982, Rail Unions In Britain And West Germany, London: Policy Studies Instit
Belief and Experience Among the Sidamo
Obituary
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