Ships for the Seven Seas : Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism /

Ships for the Seven Seas : Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism /

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Author / Creator:	Heinrich, Thomas R., 1963-
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Description:	1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in industry and society ; 12 Studies in industry and society ; 12.
Subject:	Shipbuilding industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History. Shipbuilding industry Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia History
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12039794

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ISBN:	9781421436876 1421436876 9781421436869 1421436868 142143685X 9781421436852 1421436868
Notes:	Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License. Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1997. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-268) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley.Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book AwardOriginally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers.In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting.Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
Other form:	Print version: Heinrich, Thomas R. Ships for the seven seas. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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Item Description:	Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License. Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1997.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-268) and index.
ISBN:	9781421436876 1421436876 9781421436869 1421436868 142143685X 9781421436852