Leonard N Rosenband
Biographic Data
| ID | 335669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard N Rosenband |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard N |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenband |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBAND L N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2873-3869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Practice to Memory
Manufacturing Labor Discipline
Josiah Wedgwood, the Montgolfier family, and Samuel Bentham were leading producers during the early industrial era. A pottery manufacturer, a family of papermakers, and the Inspector-General of Britain's Naval Works, they all occupied the highest perch in their fields. This article considers the efforts by these eminent figures to control the exercise and reproduction of skill in their shops. It examines their attempts to build internal labor mar…
Industriousness and its discontents
This article considers how the capitalist practices and organisation of hand papermaking framed the coming of mechanised paper production during the Age of Revolutions. The lived experience of making paper by hand had been as tightly wrapped as the synchronised toil of its workers and the trade's wage system. Neither the ’industrial Enlightenment’ nor an ‘industrious revolution’ had transformed paper production. Instead, the papermaking machine d…
C. Maitte and D. Terrier, Les rythmes du labeur
C. Maitte and D. Terrier, Les rythmes du labeur: Enquête sur le temps de travail en Europe occidentale XIVe – XIXe siècle (Paris: La Dispute/SNÉDIT, 2020). Pages 409 + figures 7. Paperback 28 €. - Volume 36 Issue 3
The Workplace before the Factory
The collection of essays in this book ranges across a wide variety of crafts and industries to offer a unique perspective on the place of labor in the lives of artisans and wage-earners in the era before large-scale mechanization. The Workplace before the Factory addresses a common theme—the influence of the work process and technological innovation on labor and production before the Industrial Revolution. Covering a broad span of time, place, an…
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez La pièce et le geste. Artisans, marchands et savoir technique à Londres au xviiie siècle Paris, Albin Michel, 2013, 454 p
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The Industrious Revolution
Much of the recent debate in early modern European labor and economic history has centered on Jan de Vries’s concept of the industrious revolution. Briefly, he claimed that workers during the period 1650-1800 chose to labor longer hours, often at greater intensity, in order to consume novel manufactured goods and imported commodities. Moreover, plebeian families increasingly pursued new employments beyond the household to pay for these objects. A…
Industrial Work and Life
Reviewed by: Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader. Vol. 78: London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology Leonard N. Rosenband (bio) Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader. Vol. 78: London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology. Edited by Massimiliano Mollona, Geert De Neve, and Jonathan Parry. Oxford: Berg, 2009. Pp. xxiii+492. $39.95. This valuable, comprehensive anthology considers the …
Simeon-Prosper Hardy
Journal Article Siméon-Prosper Hardy: Mes Loisirs, ou Journal d’événemens tels qu’ils parviennent à ma connoissance (1753–1789). Volume I (1753–1770) Get access Siméon-Prosper Hardy: Mes Loisirs, ou Journal d’événemens tels qu’ils parviennent à ma connoissance (1753–1789). Volume I(1753–1770). Edited by Daniel Roche Pascal Bastien. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval. 2008. 842pp. €52.00. ISBN: 978 2 7637 8543 1. Leonard N. Rosenband Leonar…
Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn
Reviewed by: Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise Leonard N. Rosenband (bio) Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise. By Robert Martello. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. vii+421. $30. Robert Martello has written an ambitious book about an ambitious man. His Paul Revere had large appetites for wealth, social status, personal recognition, and…
Never Just Business
Never Just BusinessDavid Landes, The Unbound Prometheus Leonard N. Rosenband (bio) David Landes writes beautiful sentences. They are elegant and robust: "In the beginning there was Smith, and Smith told us about the division of labor."1 They are also bold and barbed: "Cynics might even say that dependency doctrines have been Latin America's most successful export."2 His unadorned voice and unsentimental stance are reminiscent of the art of his ha…
Comparing combination acts
In 1796, both France and England banned combinations among paperworkers. Most notably, these measures read as if they issued from a single pen. The twin efforts outlawed the coalitions and covenants that enabled the journeymen to organize strikes and walkouts, influence wages or output quotas, restrain the manufacturers' latitude in hiring, and burden, even fine, unco-operative masters. By linking the lived experience of the labour process and th…
John U. Nef, The Conquest of the Material World
Although John U. Nef never reduced European history to the pursuit of ever more "heat energy," there were moments in his many works when it seemed so. For Nef, coal was the mainspring of European and especially British ascendancy, the impulse behind the mechanization that he feared had taken command of human destiny. Moreover, the heat energy released by atomic weapons seared his imagination; the scholar who had centered the industrial revolution…
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France
Eight years before the French Revolution, the paper mill at Vidalon-le-Haut was the setting for a bitter strike and successful lockout. This labor dispute, resulting from conflicts between master papermakers and skilled journeymen, ultimately benefitted the mill's owners and administrators-the Montgolfier family. They converted the 1781 lockout into an opportunity to train a new kind of worker, a malleable employee, and to fashion a new sort of w…
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France
The Competitive Cosmopolitanism of an Old Regime Craft
Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution
January 01 1999 Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution Leonard N. Rosenband Leonard N. Rosenband Associate Professor of History, Utah State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Leonard N. Rosenband Associate Professor of History, Utah State University. Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The …
The Perils of Petty Production
The Argument This essay examines the prospects and plans of a family of small-scale French papermakers, the Serves, from the 1780s to the 1830s. It explores the interplay of risk, the state, labor discipline, and technological diffusion. Pierre Serve petitioned the monarchy, the Revolutionary state, and the Napoleonic regime for a subsidy to install Hollander beaters, a machine that macerated rags, in his shops. His son pursued a law to humble th…
Machines a papier
Machines à papier
Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon had a fine house. Its charming grounds covered nearly five acres, and it contained a library of more than fifty thousand volumes, furniture worth fifty thousand livres, and a magnificent wine cellar. Parisians gossiped about it, strolled to the edge of the city to see it, and in April 1789 ravaged it.' With his house and the wallpaper works that occupied the ground floor besieged, Reveillon took refuge in the Bastille. He …
The Workplace before the Factory
Productivity and Labor Discipline in the Montgolfier Paper Mill, 1780–1805
The daily, weekly, and seasonal rhythms of production in the Montgolfier paper mill, one of the largest in eighteenth-century France, are examined here. Based on the comments of pioneer manufacturers, historians have been led to believe that early industrial work was irregular and unpredictable. The Montgolfiers as well complained of undependable workers. Yet their own output registers reveal a pattern of regular productivity unaided by advanced …
The Workplace before the Factory
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon had a fine house. Its charming grounds covered nearly five acres, and it contained a library of more than fifty thousand volumes, furniture worth fifty thousand livres, and a magnificent wine cellar. Parisians gossiped about it, strolled to the edge of the city to see it, and in April 1789 ravaged it.' With his house and the wallpaper works that occupied the ground floor besieged, Reveillon took refuge in the Bastille. He …
Comparing combination acts
In 1796, both France and England banned combinations among paperworkers. Most notably, these measures read as if they issued from a single pen. The twin efforts outlawed the coalitions and covenants that enabled the journeymen to organize strikes and walkouts, influence wages or output quotas, restrain the manufacturers' latitude in hiring, and burden, even fine, unco-operative masters. By linking the lived experience of the labour process and th…
Manufacturing Labor Discipline
Josiah Wedgwood, the Montgolfier family, and Samuel Bentham were leading producers during the early industrial era. A pottery manufacturer, a family of papermakers, and the Inspector-General of Britain's Naval Works, they all occupied the highest perch in their fields. This article considers the efforts by these eminent figures to control the exercise and reproduction of skill in their shops. It examines their attempts to build internal labor mar…
Industriousness and its discontents
This article considers how the capitalist practices and organisation of hand papermaking framed the coming of mechanised paper production during the Age of Revolutions. The lived experience of making paper by hand had been as tightly wrapped as the synchronised toil of its workers and the trade's wage system. Neither the ’industrial Enlightenment’ nor an ‘industrious revolution’ had transformed paper production. Instead, the papermaking machine d…
The Industrious Revolution
Much of the recent debate in early modern European labor and economic history has centered on Jan de Vries’s concept of the industrious revolution. Briefly, he claimed that workers during the period 1650-1800 chose to labor longer hours, often at greater intensity, in order to consume novel manufactured goods and imported commodities. Moreover, plebeian families increasingly pursued new employments beyond the household to pay for these objects. A…
The Competitive Cosmopolitanism of an Old Regime Craft
Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution
January 01 1999 Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution Leonard N. Rosenband Leonard N. Rosenband Associate Professor of History, Utah State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Leonard N. Rosenband Associate Professor of History, Utah State University. Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The …
Productivity and Labor Discipline in the Montgolfier Paper Mill, 1780–1805
The daily, weekly, and seasonal rhythms of production in the Montgolfier paper mill, one of the largest in eighteenth-century France, are examined here. Based on the comments of pioneer manufacturers, historians have been led to believe that early industrial work was irregular and unpredictable. The Montgolfiers as well complained of undependable workers. Yet their own output registers reveal a pattern of regular productivity unaided by advanced …
The Workplace before the Factory
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon had a fine house. Its charming grounds covered nearly five acres, and it contained a library of more than fifty thousand volumes, furniture worth fifty thousand livres, and a magnificent wine cellar. Parisians gossiped about it, strolled to the edge of the city to see it, and in April 1789 ravaged it.' With his house and the wallpaper works that occupied the ground floor besieged, Reveillon took refuge in the Bastille. He …
The Perils of Petty Production
The Argument This essay examines the prospects and plans of a family of small-scale French papermakers, the Serves, from the 1780s to the 1830s. It explores the interplay of risk, the state, labor discipline, and technological diffusion. Pierre Serve petitioned the monarchy, the Revolutionary state, and the Napoleonic regime for a subsidy to install Hollander beaters, a machine that macerated rags, in his shops. His son pursued a law to humble th…
Machines a papier
Machines à papier
Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry
Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution
January 01 1999 Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution Leonard N. Rosenband Leonard N. Rosenband Associate Professor of History, Utah State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Leonard N. Rosenband Associate Professor of History, Utah State University. Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The …
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France
The Competitive Cosmopolitanism of an Old Regime Craft
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France
Eight years before the French Revolution, the paper mill at Vidalon-le-Haut was the setting for a bitter strike and successful lockout. This labor dispute, resulting from conflicts between master papermakers and skilled journeymen, ultimately benefitted the mill's owners and administrators-the Montgolfier family. They converted the 1781 lockout into an opportunity to train a new kind of worker, a malleable employee, and to fashion a new sort of w…
John U. Nef, The Conquest of the Material World
Although John U. Nef never reduced European history to the pursuit of ever more "heat energy," there were moments in his many works when it seemed so. For Nef, coal was the mainspring of European and especially British ascendancy, the impulse behind the mechanization that he feared had taken command of human destiny. Moreover, the heat energy released by atomic weapons seared his imagination; the scholar who had centered the industrial revolution…
Comparing combination acts
In 1796, both France and England banned combinations among paperworkers. Most notably, these measures read as if they issued from a single pen. The twin efforts outlawed the coalitions and covenants that enabled the journeymen to organize strikes and walkouts, influence wages or output quotas, restrain the manufacturers' latitude in hiring, and burden, even fine, unco-operative masters. By linking the lived experience of the labour process and th…
Never Just Business
Never Just BusinessDavid Landes, The Unbound Prometheus Leonard N. Rosenband (bio) David Landes writes beautiful sentences. They are elegant and robust: "In the beginning there was Smith, and Smith told us about the division of labor."1 They are also bold and barbed: "Cynics might even say that dependency doctrines have been Latin America's most successful export."2 His unadorned voice and unsentimental stance are reminiscent of the art of his ha…
Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn
Reviewed by: Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise Leonard N. Rosenband (bio) Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise. By Robert Martello. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. vii+421. $30. Robert Martello has written an ambitious book about an ambitious man. His Paul Revere had large appetites for wealth, social status, personal recognition, and…
Industrial Work and Life
Reviewed by: Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader. Vol. 78: London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology Leonard N. Rosenband (bio) Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader. Vol. 78: London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology. Edited by Massimiliano Mollona, Geert De Neve, and Jonathan Parry. Oxford: Berg, 2009. Pp. xxiii+492. $39.95. This valuable, comprehensive anthology considers the …
Simeon-Prosper Hardy
Journal Article Siméon-Prosper Hardy: Mes Loisirs, ou Journal d’événemens tels qu’ils parviennent à ma connoissance (1753–1789). Volume I (1753–1770) Get access Siméon-Prosper Hardy: Mes Loisirs, ou Journal d’événemens tels qu’ils parviennent à ma connoissance (1753–1789). Volume I(1753–1770). Edited by Daniel Roche Pascal Bastien. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval. 2008. 842pp. €52.00. ISBN: 978 2 7637 8543 1. Leonard N. Rosenband Leonar…
The Industrious Revolution
Much of the recent debate in early modern European labor and economic history has centered on Jan de Vries’s concept of the industrious revolution. Briefly, he claimed that workers during the period 1650-1800 chose to labor longer hours, often at greater intensity, in order to consume novel manufactured goods and imported commodities. Moreover, plebeian families increasingly pursued new employments beyond the household to pay for these objects. A…
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez La pièce et le geste. Artisans, marchands et savoir technique à Londres au xviiie siècle Paris, Albin Michel, 2013, 454 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Workplace before the Factory
The collection of essays in this book ranges across a wide variety of crafts and industries to offer a unique perspective on the place of labor in the lives of artisans and wage-earners in the era before large-scale mechanization. The Workplace before the Factory addresses a common theme—the influence of the work process and technological innovation on labor and production before the Industrial Revolution. Covering a broad span of time, place, an…
Manufacturing Labor Discipline
Josiah Wedgwood, the Montgolfier family, and Samuel Bentham were leading producers during the early industrial era. A pottery manufacturer, a family of papermakers, and the Inspector-General of Britain's Naval Works, they all occupied the highest perch in their fields. This article considers the efforts by these eminent figures to control the exercise and reproduction of skill in their shops. It examines their attempts to build internal labor mar…
Industriousness and its discontents
This article considers how the capitalist practices and organisation of hand papermaking framed the coming of mechanised paper production during the Age of Revolutions. The lived experience of making paper by hand had been as tightly wrapped as the synchronised toil of its workers and the trade's wage system. Neither the ’industrial Enlightenment’ nor an ‘industrious revolution’ had transformed paper production. Instead, the papermaking machine d…
C. Maitte and D. Terrier, Les rythmes du labeur
C. Maitte and D. Terrier, Les rythmes du labeur: Enquête sur le temps de travail en Europe occidentale XIVe – XIXe siècle (Paris: La Dispute/SNÉDIT, 2020). Pages 409 + figures 7. Paperback 28 €. - Volume 36 Issue 3
From Practice to Memory
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