The Tenth Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial Archeology

The Society for Industrial Archeology (SIA) held its Tenth Annual Conference in Hartford, CT on 7-10 May 1981. Connecticut has a reputation as the breeding ground of Yankee ingenuity, and an excellent project recently described many of its surviving work places and other offspring from the mating of knowledge and capital (see Matthew Roth, Connecticut: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, SIA, 1981). Based on what was discovered by that inventory, conference participants passed two days ogling a series of metalworking and brass manufacturing plants in the Hartford area and the Naugatuck Valley. However, apart from these ritual bus tours, this SIA meeting struck a more decidedly academic pose than past gatherings in the presentation of papers and talks. Perhaps the clearest evidence of this new departure was the format of the plenary session on "Industrial Archeology and Labor History

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