This book explores the rise of manufacturing through the beliefs and practices of key industrialists and their families, exploring how they represented the diverse possibilities for the organization of a new industrial society.

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BARBARA M. TUCKER is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA.
KENNETH H. TUCKER JR. is Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College, USA.

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PART I: THE COLTS: CASINO AND CRONY CAPITALISM Colt Family Values The Education of Samuel Colt Samuel Colt: From Industry to American Empire PART II: THE SLATERS: FROM PATERNALISM TO CONTRACT The Slaters of England and New England John Fox and Horatio Nelson Slater: Paternalism, Philanthropy, and the Disciplinary Society PART III: THE LAWRENCES: MANUFACTURING AND THE MORAL LIFE OF AN INDUSTRIAL URBAN ELITE Amos and Abbott Lawrence: Philanthropy and Politics in Antebellum America Amos Adams Lawrence: The "Puritan Warrior" and the Destiny of America