Artisan workers in the Upper South
Subtitle: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865
By: L. Diane Barnes.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780807133132
Subjects: Skilled labor -- Virginia -- Petersburg -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index.
Table of contents: value: "A great deal of enterprise, and a great deal of dirt" : the rise of a southern industrial town; value: "All of one family, like brethren" : the Petersburg Benevolent Mechanic Association; value: Artisans caught in the middle : White workers in Petersburg; value: The paradox of freedom : Black artisans in Petersburg; value: Tobacco and iron : the foundations of industrial slavery; value: Between class and caste : the culture of southern antebellum artisans; value: Epilogue : and then the war came.