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Brimming with fascinating portraits of management and workers on the job and at leisure, Electric City subtly probes the values and cultural practices undergirding American society during the nation's age of manufacturing preeminence. Blackwelder's deft treatment of the masculine engineering ethos permeating GE's culture, and her rich examination of how that ethos shaped life in Schenectady, mark this as an important and pioneering work in the cultural history of American business. -- Steven W. Usselman, Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology, author of Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 --Steven W. Usselman (06/06/2014)

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JULIA KIRK BLACKWELDER is an emerita professor at Texas A&M University, where she previously served as head of the history department and as associate dean. She is the author of three books: Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation (2003); Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 (1997); and Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939 (1984). She is a Schenectady County native and currently a resident of Ballston, New York.

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