The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism

by Michael B. Katz, Mark J. Stern

This book offers a fresh and coherent framework for the interpretation of nineteeth-century North American social history. Drawing on an enormous data base and ten years of research, the authors show how social structure and mobility, the oranization of family life, the ways in which young people passed from childhood to adulthood, and the development of social institutions all intersected with the history of early industrial capitalism. The authors extrapolate from their intensive, primarily quantitative analyses of Hamilton, Ontario, and Buffalo and Erie County, New York, as well as from the work of other historiansons on similar topics. The book utilizes manuscript censuses; tax rolls; city directories; jail, school, and parish registers; and newspapers. The authors' methods include both descriptive and multivariate analysis as well as research into nonquantitative sources.

464 pages, Hardcover

First published April 21, 1982

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

The usual academic mess to make the point the authors want to make.

Chapter 4. It starts with a quote from the *Ontario Workman*. Okay. On the next page they have reached the *Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor*. Only to state on the third page

> The situation in Hamilton and Buffalo was equally complex.

Equally complex as in Bali?

Anyway, Hamilton and Buffalo were not referenced in this chapter. And there are quite many towns named Buffalo and Hamilton.

Why choose these examples from any other example? Simply because the authors were too lazy to be bothered to restrict their research to a small area. Or maybe because after years of work NO region proved their thesis and they had to mix and match.

Anyway, as the examples are only North of Mexico, the title is also deceitful.