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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover copy. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Craft’s reputation is as something eternal. It has always been with us it seems since the first pots were made from clay dug out of riverbeds and the first simple baskets were plaited by hand. Seen from this perspective craft is intrinsic to what it is to be human. In modern times though it seems to be under constant assault. Its steady disappearance in the face of the more powerful and efficient forms of production that we call “industry” is therefore to be understood as a tide of depersonalization. We must try to turn the clock back to revive craft’s organic role in society or at least slow the pace of its vanishing. That is the usual way of looking at things. But this book is going to tell the story rather differently. Rather than treating craft as an ever-present aspect of human behavior increas- ingly threatened by technological advances. I argue that craft is itself a modern invention. It is customary to speak of the century from 1750 to 1850 as the time of the “industrial revolution” a phrase that conveys a sense of radical transformation. And rightly so: it is possible iss the novelty and importance of the mechanization factory organization (LL)