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Craft Capitalism focuses on Hamilton, Ontario, and demonstrates how the preservation of traditional work arrangements, craft mobility networks, and other aspects of craft culture ensured that craftsworkers in that city enjoyed an essentially positive introduction to industrial capitalism.

Table of Contents
List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Artisans, Craftsworkers, and Social Relations of Craft-Based Industrialization The Structure of Hamilton's Early Industrialization: Continuity and Change Personal Structures: Craftsworkers and Industrial Proprietors by 1871 Craft Mobility and Artisan-Led Industrialization: Continuity in Symbol and Practice A Culture in Continuity: Master--Man Mutualism in Hamilton, Ontario, during Early Industrialization The 'Self-Made Craftsworker': Transmodalism, Self-Identification, and the Foundations of Emergent Culture The 'Self-Improving Craftsworker': Dimensions of Transmodal Culture in Ideology and Practice Transmodal Culture in Apogee: 1872 RevisitedConclusionNotesIndex

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 29 December 2007
      ISBN-13 9780802091277
      978-0802091277
      ISBN-10 080209127X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Craft Capitalism focuses on Hamilton, Ontario, and demonstrates how the preservation of traditional work arrangements, craft mobility networks, and other aspects of craft culture ensured that craftsworkers in that city enjoyed an essentially positive introduction to industrial capitalism.

      Table of Contents
      List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Artisans, Craftsworkers, and Social Relations of Craft-Based Industrialization The Structure of Hamilton's Early Industrialization: Continuity and Change Personal Structures: Craftsworkers and Industrial Proprietors by 1871 Craft Mobility and Artisan-Led Industrialization: Continuity in Symbol and Practice A Culture in Continuity: Master--Man Mutualism in Hamilton, Ontario, during Early Industrialization The 'Self-Made Craftsworker': Transmodalism, Self-Identification, and the Foundations of Emergent Culture The 'Self-Improving Craftsworker': Dimensions of Transmodal Culture in Ideology and Practice Transmodal Culture in Apogee: 1872 RevisitedConclusionNotesIndex

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