| Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield Subjects: Springfield (Mass.) -- Economic conditions; Springfield (Mass.) -- Social conditions; Springfield (Mass.) -- History -- 17thcentury; Stephen Innes studies the relationship between work, land, and community in seventeenth-century Springfield, Massachusetts. Using analytical concepts drawn from anthropology--dependence, mediation, and clientage--he shows that the town was a highly commercialized, developmental community contrasting sharply with the communal, quietistic models that currently form our image of early New England. |