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But the process of urbanization had been occurring for centuries. The English encouraged urbanization in colonial Virginia, but Virginia's plantation economy and well-developed system of rivers militated against the growth of towns. Virginia's cities grew slowly, but they did grow. By 1860, Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, Alexandria, and ...
The Growth of Industry. New industries were emerging in Virginia’s cities. Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, and Wheeling seemed poised for further growth. By the late 1850s, Virginia could claim 4,841 manufacturing establishments, making it fifth among the states in this category––though far behind the more ...
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- Tredegar Iron Works
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- Bond of Iron
- Ironmaker to The Confederacy
Tredegar Iron Works: Richmond’s Foundry on the James (2015) by Nathan Vernon Madison is a 192 paged popular history of the Richmond iron works that produced military cannon and equipment during five wars and contributed to the growing railroads of the Gilded Age and supplied items for the railroad, horseshoe and ordnance industries into the 1920s. ...
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: coal politics and economy in Antebellum America(2010) by Sean Patrick Adams in 300 pages shows that state legislature politics built institutional structures for the coal industry in both Virginia and Pennsylvania. In Virginia the landed elites fostered policy that proved incapable of balancing disparate geogr...
Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge(1994) by Charles B. Dew is a contribution to Virginia history and industrial slavery in a location nearby Lexington, Virginia. In 448 pages, Dew describes Pennsylvania immigrant entrepreneur William Weaver as a well capitalized slaveowner, training field hands as master refiners such as Sam Williams a...
Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works(1966, 1999) by Charles B. Dew is a 345 paged account primarily of the Iron Works as economic and management history, although Anderson’s support of secession as a means to concentrate his markets and increase profits, and later his wartime use of blockade running to build ...
Jun 1, 2004 · All documented developed nations endured the ‘four Ds’ of disruption, deprivation, disease and death during their historic industrializations. The well-documented British historical case is reviewed in detail to examine the principal factors involved.
- Simon Szreter
- 2004
Mar 14, 2024 · In addition, employers used every means at their disposal—the carrots of paternalism, small raises, and improved conditions, and the sticks of layoffs, speedups, and strike breakers—to discourage labor organizing among industrial working women.
Aug 3, 2022 · From the mines of Southwest Virginia, to shipyards in Newport News, to Starbucks workers in Leesburg, to hospitals in Charlottesville, to textile factories in Danville, and more, workers have organized for the right to stick together and improve working conditions.
Virginia—the largest and most populous colony—played a major role in winning independence and determining the values and aspirations of the new nation. At both the start and end of the Revolutionary War, Virginia became a battlefield. In 1775, Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor, was repulsed at the battle of Great Bridge and he retreated to ...
