Samuel Slater

(noun)

Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson; the "Father of the American Factory System"; or "Slater the Traitor" (in the UK) because he brought British textile technology to America.

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  • Early Textile Manufactures

    • However, they enjoyed little success until a letter arrived from Samuel Slater offering his services.
    • In 1793, Slater and Brown opened their first factory in Pawtucket.
    • During construction, Slater made some adjustments to the designs to fit local needs.
    • However in 1789, Samuel Slater, an apprentice in one of the largest textile factories in England, defied British laws against the emigration of skilled laborers and smuggled his knowledge of textile machinery to the United States.
    • Slater went on to build several more cotton and wool mills throughout New England.

  • The Lowell System

    • The precursor to the Waltham-Lowell system was the "Rhode Island System," established by British immigrant Samuel Slater in the 1790s.
    • Slater's factory system was based upon the customary patterns of family life in New England.
    • Slater provided company-owned housing and stores, creating mill villages.
    • Following Slater's success, Massachusetts Merchant Francis Cabot Lowell devised a new textile operation on the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.

  • Factories, Working Women, and Wage Labor

    • In 1789, Samuel Slater, an apprentice in one of the largest textile factories in England, defied British laws against the emigration of skilled laborers and smuggled his knowledge of textile machinery to the United States.
    • In 1793, he established a cotton-spinning mill with a fully mechanized water-power system at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
    • Slater's Mill was established in the Blackstone Valley, which became one of the earliest industrialized regions in the United States.
    • Slater went on to build several more cotton and wool mills throughout New England.
    • Slater's mills ran on a business model called the "Rhode Island System."

  • Examples of business models from the music industry

    • Finally, the retailers market and sell the packaged goods to the final consumers (Slater, Smith, Bambauer, Gasser, and Palfrey 2005; see Exhibit 47).
    • This approach is similar to the traditional model, but there is an emphasis on the online delivery of content (Slater et al., 2005).
    • This model is derived from the "Ancillary Products and Services" model that the Berkman center formulated in 2005 (Slater et al. 2005).

  • Multielectron Atoms

    • As an approximation, the effective nuclear charge on each electron can be estimated by: Zeff=Z−σZ_\text{eff} = Z - \sigma, where $Z$ is the number of protons in the nucleus and σ\sigma is the average number of electrons between the nucleus and the electron in question. σ\sigma can be found by using quantum chemistry and the Schrodinger equation or by using Slater's empirical formula.

  • Gompers and the AFL

    • Samuel Gompers was a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history, founding the American Federation of Labor.
    • Samuel Gompers was an English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
    • Samuel Gompers began his labor career familiar with, and sympathetic to, the precepts of socialism, but gradually adopted a more conservative approach to labor relations.

  • Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. "Mark Twain"

    • Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist .

  • Swelling Protest

    • In Boston, the street demonstrations originated from the leadership of respectable public leaders such as James Otis, who commanded the Boston Gazette, and Samuel Adams of the "Loyal Nine" of the Boston Caucus, an organization of Boston merchants.
    • Samuel Adams and his cousin, John, did not become members of the Sons of Liberty so as not to be directly connected with any violence that the organization may have been involved in.
    • However, Samuel Adams most likely participated in the organization through writing, shared opinion, and association with prominent members that had influential power with the people.
    • Samuel Adams was a leader in the colonial opposition of Stamp Act.

  • French Colonialization

    • Several years later, in 1608, Samuel De Champlain founded Quebec, which was to become the capital of the enormous, but sparsely settled, fur-trading colony of New France.

  • What is Economics?

    • Warren Samuels argues that the "economy is a process of valuation….
    • That to behave and to choose is to engage in valuation and thereby to participate in the social, or socioeconomic, valuation process" (Samuels p ix).