Many studies have concluded that the effects of early
industrialization on traditional craftsworkers were largely
negative. Robert B. Kristofferson demonstrates, however, that in at
least one area this was not the case. Craft Capitalism focuses on
Hamilton, Ontario, demonstrating how the preservation of
traditional work arrangements, craft mobility networks, and other
aspects of craft culture ensured that craftworkers in that city
enjoyed an essentially positive introduction to industrial
capitalism.
Kristofferson argues that as former craftsworkers themselves,
the majority of the city's industrial proprietors helped younger
craftsworkers achieve independence. Conflict rooted in capitalist
class experience, while present, was not yet dominant. Furthermore,
he argues, while craftsworkers' experience of the change was more
informed by the residual cultures of craft than by the emergent
logic of capitalism, craft culture in Hamilton was not
retrogressive. Rather, this situation served as a center of social
creation in ways that built on the positive aspects of both
systems.
Based on extensive archival research, this controversial and
engaging study makes an important contribution to the study of
industrialization and class formation in Canada.
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