Michael Zakim
Biographic Data
| ID | 132146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Zakim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Zakim |
| SIGNATURE | ZAKIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Individualism in America: Alexis de Tocqueville Discovers a New World of Liberal Politics
This article examines the radical, if not subversive, nature of individualism, as originally expounded by Alexis de Tocqueville in the second volume of Democracy in America in 1840, arguably the most important study of liberal political theory written to this day. Tocqueville drew on the neologism individualism to explain the implausible emergence of democracy as a viable form of government. “Individualism in America” addresses the restless resul…
Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848
The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work and the Gig Economy, by George Morgan and Pariece Nelligan
In their investigation of capital’s ongoing colonization of human experience, George Morgan and Pariece Nelligan mobilize a broad glossary of relevant terms. The list includes ‘lumpen labour’ and ‘
Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made
The story of how everyday nineteenth-century clerks helped to articulate modern capitalism. The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In A…
Desk Diseases
In a capitalist epoch of separation, disintegration, analysis, and individualizing the social order had to be reconstituted. That order needed to base itself on the same fluid, individualistic values that drove the market. This essay argues that a group of new nervous disorders in the nineteenth century served that purpose. These ‘desk diseases’ principally afflicted sedentary men -- merchants and their clerks, together with lawyers, industrialis…
Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management - an inventory of the means by which capitalism became…
The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England
John Styles, The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England (2007), 448 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £25.00/$50.00). John Styles's Dress of the People is a difficult
Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made
Journal Article Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made Get access Michael Zakim Michael Zakim Michael Zakim teaches American history at Tel Aviv University. The present essay, “Sartorial Ideologies,” is part of a larger project, entitled “Ready-Made Democracy,” which is a political history of men's dress in the United States during the first century of industrial revolution. “Ready-Made Democracy” was awarded Columbia University's Banc…
Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made
A Ready-Made Business: The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America
This article recounts the birth of the clothing industry in the United States after 1815. It contends, in contrast to recent historical literature, that the clothing business was at the center of the American experience of industrialization. This was not because ready-made clothing was a novel commodity. Nor was it because of new production technologies, social innovations, or legal structures adopted by the industry. Rather, clothing entrepreneu…
Customizing the Industrial Revolution: The Reinvention of Tailoring in the Nineteenth Century
Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848
A Ready-Made Business: The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America
This article recounts the birth of the clothing industry in the United States after 1815. It contends, in contrast to recent historical literature, that the clothing business was at the center of the American experience of industrialization. This was not because ready-made clothing was a novel commodity. Nor was it because of new production technologies, social innovations, or legal structures adopted by the industry. Rather, clothing entrepreneu…
Customizing the Industrial Revolution: The Reinvention of Tailoring in the Nineteenth Century
A Ready-Made Business: The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America
This article recounts the birth of the clothing industry in the United States after 1815. It contends, in contrast to recent historical literature, that the clothing business was at the center of the American experience of industrialization. This was not because ready-made clothing was a novel commodity. Nor was it because of new production technologies, social innovations, or legal structures adopted by the industry. Rather, clothing entrepreneu…
Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made
Journal Article Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made Get access Michael Zakim Michael Zakim Michael Zakim teaches American history at Tel Aviv University. The present essay, “Sartorial Ideologies,” is part of a larger project, entitled “Ready-Made Democracy,” which is a political history of men's dress in the United States during the first century of industrial revolution. “Ready-Made Democracy” was awarded Columbia University's Banc…
Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made
The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England
John Styles, The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England (2007), 448 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £25.00/$50.00). John Styles's Dress of the People is a difficult
Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management - an inventory of the means by which capitalism became…
Desk Diseases
In a capitalist epoch of separation, disintegration, analysis, and individualizing the social order had to be reconstituted. That order needed to base itself on the same fluid, individualistic values that drove the market. This essay argues that a group of new nervous disorders in the nineteenth century served that purpose. These ‘desk diseases’ principally afflicted sedentary men -- merchants and their clerks, together with lawyers, industrialis…
Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made
The story of how everyday nineteenth-century clerks helped to articulate modern capitalism. The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In A…
The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work and the Gig Economy, by George Morgan and Pariece Nelligan
In their investigation of capital’s ongoing colonization of human experience, George Morgan and Pariece Nelligan mobilize a broad glossary of relevant terms. The list includes ‘lumpen labour’ and ‘
Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848
Individualism in America: Alexis de Tocqueville Discovers a New World of Liberal Politics
This article examines the radical, if not subversive, nature of individualism, as originally expounded by Alexis de Tocqueville in the second volume of Democracy in America in 1840, arguably the most important study of liberal political theory written to this day. Tocqueville drew on the neologism individualism to explain the implausible emergence of democracy as a viable form of government. “Individualism in America” addresses the restless resul…
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