Cat.No: 41414 The pottery industry of Trenton; a skilled trade in transition, 1850-1929. Marc Jeffrey Stern.

The pottery industry of Trenton; a skilled trade in transition, 1850-1929

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xiii, 306p., slightly shelfworn dust jacket, else in very good condition. Class and culture.

"[C]hronicles industrialization in this competitive, skill-intensive trade. Nineteenth-century potting remained locked in conflicts between and among manufacturers and workers in which price wars and antiunionism invariably undid both the employers' trade associations and employee trade unions. the shift to specialization in sanitary pottery (bathtubs, sinks, and commodes) after 1900, however saw employers and workers create a cooperative system, which virtually eliminated price wars, strikes, and lockouts." - dust jacket.

Cat.No: 41414
ISBN: 0813520983

Price: $12.00