American Life During the Industrial Age

This volume explores the Industrial Age (1860-1914), bringing together published and archival primary sources with introductory essays that contextualize a period of extraordinary social, cultural, and economic transformation.

Alexis McCrossen is Professor at the Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University, U.S.A., where she teaches U.S. social and cultural history. She is the author of Marking Modern Times: Clocks, Watches and Other Timekeepers in American Life and Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday, and is the editor of Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands.

Introduction 1. Wages 2. Scarcity and Abundance 3. Immigration 4. Race and Racism 5. Work 6. Unions and Strikes 7. Electricity 8. Clock Time, Speed, and Simultaneity 9. Contaminants 10. Diseases and Cures