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A profitable and creditable establishment: Industrial textile manufacturing and capitalist relations of production in the antebellum central Virginia piedmont.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A profitable and creditable establishment: Industrial textile manufacturing and capitalist relations of production in the antebellum central Virginia piedmont./
Author:	Ford, Benjamin Peter.
Description:	583 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2575.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-07A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9840371
ISBN:	9780591942514

A profitable and creditable establishment: Industrial textile manufacturing and capitalist relations of production in the antebellum central Virginia piedmont.
Ford, Benjamin Peter.

A profitable and creditable establishment: Industrial textile manufacturing and capitalist relations of production in the antebellum central Virginia piedmont. - 583 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2575.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 1998.

From the last quarter of the eighteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the central Virginia piedmont underwent a gradual agricultural transformation from the nearly exclusive production of a tobacco product to a mixed grain production featuring the cash crop wheat. The regional agricultural infrastructure eventually caught up with production as small local mill seats were transformed into commercial wheat processing centers. By the beginning of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, many commercial mill seats along the Rivanna river expanded their services to accomodate the industrial production of textiles. Several mill seat owners constructed textile factories and used a wage-based, predominantly free, white labor force. By the 1840s many of these factories were fully integrated and produced a variety of textiles and textile related products marketed towards the surrounding slave-based agricultural society. The development of industrial textile production at Shadwell Mills is considered as one example of how textile manufacturers integrated industrial capitalist practices within a dominant slave-based agricultural society.

ISBN: 9780591942514Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

A profitable and creditable establishment: Industrial textile manufacturing and capitalist relations of production in the antebellum central Virginia piedmont.
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520 $a From the last quarter of the eighteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the central Virginia piedmont underwent a gradual agricultural transformation from the nearly exclusive production of a tobacco product to a mixed grain production featuring the cash crop wheat. The regional agricultural infrastructure eventually caught up with production as small local mill seats were transformed into commercial wheat processing centers. By the beginning of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, many commercial mill seats along the Rivanna river expanded their services to accomodate the industrial production of textiles. Several mill seat owners constructed textile factories and used a wage-based, predominantly free, white labor force. By the 1840s many of these factories were fully integrated and produced a variety of textiles and textile related products marketed towards the surrounding slave-based agricultural society. The development of industrial textile production at Shadwell Mills is considered as one example of how textile manufacturers integrated industrial capitalist practices within a dominant slave-based agricultural society.
520 $a In constructing the context for rural industrial textile production, many of the earliest manufacturers turned to a common agricultural heritage drawing from widely held beliefs and values. As a result, the structure of larger agrarian society in the antebellum central Virginia piedmont had a nurturing influence on emergent industrial capitalist production informing both social experience and individual practice. In the case of Shadwell Mills, textile manufacturers also manipulated the cultural landscape and material culture to their benefit. The philosophical framework which guides this research is an emphasis on a dialectical relationship between individual and society, that social structures contribute to the experience of social life and that individuals, as involved participants in the process of social change, have the capability to reproduce and transform them. The actions and intentions of the industrial textile manufacturers are interpreted through archaeological survey and excavation, and the examination of illustrations, photographs, maps, and other historical documents.
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