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Factory Hands: Industrial Craft in Britain

Factory Hands: Industrial Craft in Britain

Inglesby, Roisin
Adamson, Glenn

Paperback

Crafts GeneralGeneral ArtIndustrial Design

PREORDER - Expected ship date June 29, 2027

ISBN10: 1917976275
ISBN13: 9781917976275
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Published: Jun 29 2027
Pages: 176
Language: English

Reclaims factory work as craft, challenging histories of making that overlook industrial production

Despite increasing interest in craft studies over the past decade, narratives have largely adhered to a formula of making inherited from the Arts and Crafts Movement, by which artisanal skills are practically and morally linked with small-batch, handmade objects, crafted from natural materials and liberated from commercial interests. According to this narrative, factories are where craft goes to die. In these great engines of mass production, driven by competition to achieve maximum efficiency, the worker is turned into a tender of machines, or replaced by them entirely, and there is no such thing as human skill or artisanal craft. This publication exposes the inadequacies and biases of this limited understanding of craft production. Through a series of essays, profiles, oral histories and specially commissioned photography, it will demonstrate that factories can be vital repositories of material intelligence and specialist skills that fully deserve a place within the history of craft. This book accompanies William Morris Gallery's touring exhibition.

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