Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age - Softcover

Nenadic, Stana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474493084 ISBN 13: 9781474493086

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

A cultural history of artisans and hand skills against the background of technical and commercial modernisation in ScotlandShortlisted for Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2022 Draws on personal, business, institutional and official records as well as newspaper reports and visual illustrations Examples cover the whole of Scotland and all areas of craftwork and handmade goods Considers the changing cultural value accorded to handmade goods for craftworkers and their customers This book examines individuals, families and communities of craftworkers and their changing experience in town and country. Based on case studies drawn from personal, business, institutional and official records, as well as newspaper reports and visual illustrations, it looks at workplace dynamics and handmade wares shaped by personal consumption, rather than industrial production. Stana Nenadic examines the 'things' that were made and the values they embodied at a time when most Scots were still engaged in hand making either for income or pleasure despite Scotland's emergence as a great industrial powerhouse.

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About the Author

Stana Nenadic is Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh. She studies the social, cultural and economic life of artisans and business owners, the middle ranks, gentry and professionals since the eighteenth century, mainly with reference to Scotland and has a parallel interest in the material and visual cultures of the past. Previous publications include Colouring the Nation: The Turkey Red Printed Cotton Industry in Scotland c.1840-1940 (NMS Publications, Edinburgh, 2013), co-written with Sally Tuckett, Scots in London the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2010) and Lairds and Luxury: The Highland Gentry in Eighteenth Century Scotland (John Donald, Edinburgh, 2007). She is Director of the Pasold Research Fund (for the history of textiles, dress and fashion) and currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Nenadic was previously a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 2001-2011.

From the Back Cover

Explores how artisans and hand skills evolved against a background of technical and commercial modernisation in Scotland This book examines individuals, families and communities of craftworkers and their changing experience in town and country. Based on case studies drawn from personal, business, institutional and official records, as well as newspaper reports and visual illustrations, it looks at workplace dynamics and handmade wares shaped by personal consumption, rather than industrial production. Stana Nenadic examines the 'things' that were made and the values they embodied at a time when most Scots were still engaged in hand making - either for income or pleasure - despite Scotland's emergence as a great industrial powerhouse. Stana Nenadic is Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474493084
• ISBN 13: 9781474493086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272