Work without Salvation - James B. Gilbert

Title: Work without Salvation: America’s Intellectuals and Industrial Alienation, 1880–1910
Author: James B. Gilbert
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First edition, 1977
ISBN: 0-8018-1954-7
Condition: Second-hand. Good. The dust jacket shows rubbing, surface marks, edge wear and small chips and creases at the corners and spine ends, with some age-related soiling to the rear panel. The binding is intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A scholarly study of how American intellectuals responded to industrialisation, mechanised labour and social alienation between 1880 and 1910, tracing changing ideas about work, culture and modern industrial society.

Gilbert places writers, reformers and social critics within the upheavals of late nineteenth-century America, examining the intellectual consequences of rapid industrial change and the search for alternatives to an increasingly impersonal working world.