Household manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860
Subtitle: a study in industrial history
By: by Rolla Milton Tryon.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Home labor; Industries -- United States -- History; United States -- Economic conditions
Notes: Published also as thesis (Ph. D.) University of Chicago, 1915.
Bibliography: p. 377-397.
Table of contents: title: -Factors affecting Household Manufactures in the Colonies; title: -The Status of Household Manufactures in the Colonies; title: -A Quarter-Century of Developments, 1784-1809; title: -A Year’s Output of the Family Factory (includes household manufactures in every state and territory, and household textile manufactures); title: -The Products of the Family Factory (wearing apparel, textile supplies, household implements, utensils, furniture, farming implements, building materials, general supplies); title: -The Transition from Family- to Shop- and Factory-Made Goods; title: -The Passing of the Family Factory; title: -Bibliography