Life, Labour and Death in an Industrial City
The Occupational Health of Barre, Vermont, Granite Workers, 1870-1940
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen J Randall (0009-0000-4026-0446, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-210 |
| Publication date | 1991-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-022-02-04 |
| OpenAlex | W2093529106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
The industrialization of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought significant transformations to what, prior to the Civil War, had been semi-rural, predominantly agricultural New England towns. In the past three decades, historians have given increasing attention to the ways in which this industrial transition affected small U.S. cities and towns. Because of the richness of sources, a number of those studies, including the seminal work of Stephan Thernstrom on Newburyport, Massachusetts, have concentrated on the New England region. The "new" urban historians have been concerned with a more systematic examination of such issues as socio-economic mobility, class, ethnicity, family patterns and culture. They thus have drawn more fully than in the past on broader writings in such areas as labour history, family history, the history of technology and immigration history. The urban history of the past several decades has also been more quantitative in methodology, drawing on complex analyses of manuscript census data, birth, marriage and death records, city directories and oral histories. This essay is designed to continue those approaches and to build upon the new urban history by adding the important dimension of industrial health and safety to our understanding of the nature of the transition from rural to urban and agrarian to industrial society
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2006 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |