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An Old New York Cabinet Maker: Experiences of Ernest Hagen

 
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Type: Library or Collection
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary
Author: Center for History and New Media/American Social History Project
Subject: Humanities
Institution Name: American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
Collection Name: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)

Abstract: The most visible signs of industrialization in mid nineteenth-century America occurred in mushrooming factory towns such as Lowell, Massachusetts, but changes in manufacturing also took place in metropolises like New York City. Waves of immigrants entered the port cities 'small workshops, sites of intense craft activity. Cabinetmaking resisted mechanization and unskilled labor because the trade required intricate work on complex pieces of furniture. In his unpublished memoir German immigrant Ernst Hagen recalled that many of the leading names in nineteenth-century furniture, well represented today in museum collections, presided over large shops of toiling workers. Some employed over two hundred hands. The post-Civil War rise of western factories disrupted this urban system; skilled workers either found other employment or were relegated to margins of the trade such as repair work.

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