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Rice, Stephen P. "Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America, 1820-1860," American Studies Program, Yale University, September 1996.
Americans experiencing early mechanization formulated distinct working-class and middle-class identities in diverse social and cultural practices. But most American did not equate class separation with class antagonism. This study understands this equanimity by considering how classes formed discursively as they formed socially. Drawing on a range of printed materials, it finds that ideas about class circulated through a national discourse on mechanization. In this popular discourse, middle-class Americans defused the potential for class conflict by representing vexed class relations as analogous to less-contested relations between human and machine, head and hand, and mind and body. Chapters examining steam boiler explosions, the mechanics’ institute movement, and popular physiology reform show how these languages of class appeared neutral on divisive questions about mechanization.
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