Laurence F Gross

Biographic Data

ID5711240
NAMELaurence F Gross
GIVEN NAMESLaurence F
FAMILY NAMEGross
SIGNATUREGROSS L F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City (review)

    Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    Reviewed by: The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City Laurence F. Gross (bio) The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City. By Cathy Stanton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. Pp. xvi+299. $24.95. Cathy Stanton’s book offers historians a novel approach to the practice of their craft. In looking at the exhibits and programs of the Lowell National Historical Park, she studies the actors along …

  • American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts (review)

    Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture2008

    Reviewed by: American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts Laurence F. Gross (bio) American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts. By Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv+326. $45. In American Silk, three authors develop a picture of the silk industry during overlapping periods. They focus on the role of “entrepreneurs [who] receive little attention because most ind…

  • Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880-1920

    Laurence F Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

  • Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community

    Laurence F Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1996

  • Hopedale: From Commune to Company Town, 1840-1920

    Richard E Greenwood, Edward K Spann et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1994

  • Lowell: The Corporations and the City

    Laurence F Gross, Heidi Vernon-WortzelARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1994

  • Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory

    Laurence F Gross, Laurence Gross et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory. By Victor J. Danilov. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. x, 211 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-313-27658-7.) Get access Laurence Gross Laurence Gross University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1567–1568, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080765 Publi…

  • The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955

    P Tedesco, Paul H Tedesco et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835–1955. By Laurence F. Gross. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xviii, 279 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-8018-4453-3.) Get access Paul H. Tedesco Paul H. Tedesco University of Maryland, Asian Division Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Page…

  • The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955

    David J Jeremy, Laurence F Gro et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

  • Problems in Exhibiting Labor in Museums and a Technological Fix

    Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

  • Problems in Exhibiting Labor in Museums and a Technological Fix

    Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

    Museum Commentary PROBLEMS IN EXHIBITING LABOR IN MUSEUMS AND A TECHNOLOGICAL FIX LAURENCE F. GROSS In the United States, few museum exhibits address labor or labor history, a situation that persists for at least two practical reasons. First, while people—laborers—are certainly tangible and visible, much of what is meant by the verb “to labor” is neither. The act of laboring cannot be contained in a glass case or framed on a wall. Film and video …

  • Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885-1941

    Laurence F Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1991

    List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. Advantage, proprietors, 1886-93 3. Inside the mill: flexible production and the family firm 4. From crisis to crisis, 1893-1904 5. Peace and war, 1904-18 6. The changing time, 1919-33 7. Long nights, false dawns, 1933-41 8. Conclusion Index

  • The Men and the Mills: A History of the Southern Textile Industry by Mildred Gwin Andrews

    Laurence Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

    324 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Increasingly, however, Colvin came to praise the machine tool industry less for its technical virtuosity than for its essential contribu­ tions to the relief of want and thus to the preservation of democracy. Two world wars using the fruits of machine production and fought in the name of democracy made the connection concrete. For Colvin, these wars demonstrated how the skills and cooperative values of the …

  • The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913

    Laurence Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

  • The Men and the Mills: A History of the Southern Textile Industry

    Laurence Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

  • The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913 by Steve Golin

    Laurence Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

    158 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE mobility, through price mechanics involved in exchanges of commod­ ities. Although others might well disagree, I found this effort uncon­ vincing, in that insufficient data were offered to illustrate the scope and scale of of interregional commodity flows that would lead to the convergence effect. Kane allows that this theory may be “criticized for its limited applicability to real-world conditions” (p. 126…

  • "Lobstering and the Maine Coast" at the Maine Maritime Museum

    Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    Maine stands as the most exceptional of the northeastern states through combination of poverty, large size, small population, and its unique conjunction of forest and seashore. Few visitors fail to notice and admire the boats and buoys along the coast, the direct evidence of lobstering. Piles of lobster traps and related paraphernalia clutter the shore around docks and lobstermen's houses. Such things, along with the crustaceans themselves (in li…

  • “Lobstering and the Maine Coast” at the Maine Maritime Museum

    Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    Exhibit Reviews “LOBSTERING AND THE MAINE COAST” AT THE MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM LAURENCE F. GROSS Maine stands as the most exceptional of the northeastern states through a combination of poverty, large size, small population, and its unique conjunction of forest and seashore. Few visitors fail to notice and admire the boats and buoys along the coast, the direct evidence of lobstering. Piles of lobster traps and related paraphernalia clutter the sho…

  • Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885

    Laurence F Gross, Judith A McGrawARTICLEJournal of American History1988Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801–1885. By Judith A. McGaw. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xvii + 439 pp. $40.00.) Get access Laurence F. Gross Laurence F. Gross Museum of American Textile History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 604–605, https://doi.org…

  • The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflict in the Philadelphia Region, 1787-1837

    Laurence F Gross, Cynthia J SheltonARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflict in the Philadelphia Region, 1787–1837. By Cynthia J. Shelton. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xii + 227 pp. $26.50.) Get access Laurence F. Gross Laurence F. Gross Museum of American Textile History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1329–1330, https…

  • With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts by Mark Erlich

    Laurence F Gro, Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 920 Book Reviews—Labor and Technology With Our Hands: The Story ofCarpenters in Massachusetts. By Mark Erlich. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. xv + 239; illustra­ tions, notes, index. $29.95. Mark Erlich has used a variety of sources to assemble a history of an important branch of building trades workers with impressive result. While presenting the several threads of the story, he offers the reader the oppo…

  • With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts

    Laurence F Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

  • International Trends in Museum Interpretation of Technology and Labor

    Open AccessLaurence F Gross, Laurence GrossARTICLEInternational Labor and…1987

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  • Wool Carding: A Study of Skills and Technology

    Laurence F Gro, Laurence F GrossARTICLETechnology and Culture1987Cited by: 2

    offers an additional avenue of understanding, as I have argued elsewhere.' Yet even that approach does guarantee comprehension of the essentials of a piece of equipment, particularly the manner (as opposed to principles) of its operation and the relationship between this manner and the people who work with it. The difference between knowledge of principles and understanding of operation was brought home to me by an effort to put a 1921 woolen car…

  • The Cape Cod Canal

    Laurence F Gro, Laurence F Gross et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1981