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Ships for the Seven Seas - Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism (Paperback)
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Ships for the Seven Seas - Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Industry and Society
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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 Award Originally 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.
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