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Greenwood, Richard E. "'Scientific Engineering and Useful Improvements': The Manufacturing Career of Zachariah Allen, 1822-1872," American Civilization Program, Brown University, May 1996.
This biographical study of a Rhode Island textile manufacturer focuses on his role as an agent of technological innovation and an author of key institutions in the framework of industrial society. Allen maintained a persistent search for technological improvement as strategy for success. His efforts depict innovation as imitator, inventor, and patron, drawing on American and English sources. In his mill villages, he developed a paternalistic program combining environmental design and cultural institutions. These villages illustrate the complex motivations of economic self-interest and disinterested civicism that informed his social paternalism
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