Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Household Manufactures in the United States 1640 1860: A Study in Industrial History
In any historical study the closer one gets to the every day life of the common people the better basis one has for understanding that people's history. Few historical sub jects offer better opportunities to get very near the actual life of the common people than the one treated in the following pages. In order to determine the extent to which household manufacturing was carried on in the United States prior to 1860, the phases and processes relative to the industry, and the products resulting therefrom, it was necessary for the writer to go right into the homes of the people engaged in such manufacturing. Such, of course, was historically but not actually possible. Historically speaking, the writer was able to see the system of family manufacturing in operation through the accounts of those persons who both actually saw and were a part of it and were for this reason in a position to record facts, describe conditions, and estimate amounts relative to the system.
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