The wheelwright's shop
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書誌事項
The wheelwright's shop
Cambridge University Press, 1993
Canto ed
- : pbk
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注記
"First published 1923"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-212) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology. The wheelwright's shop where he entered business had been operating for two centuries; this chronicle, first published in 1923, is a poignant record of that tradition, written as it was passing into history. E. P. Thompson's new foreword acclaims the significance of Sturt's engaging narrative as a vital document in the history of labour at the turn of the century. '... a classic ... Mr Sturt's masterpiece. A delightfully urbane and informing book, full of valuable material for the social historian and a sheer pleasure to read.' New Statesman 'It shows in the author a combination of the gifts of a handicraftsman, the actual maker of things, with the powers of a writer, in a way not common in English literature.' The Times Literary Supplement
目次
- Part I. ORIGINS: 1. Beginnings
- 2. The Sturts
- 3. My own start
- 4. The wheelwright's shop
- Part II. TIMBER: 5. Buying
- 6. Carting and converting
- 7. The sawyers
- 8. Seasoning
- 9. Wheel-stuff
- Part III. GENERAL WORK: 10. Kindly feeling
- 11. Hand-work
- 12. Bottom-timbers
- 13. Waggons
- 14. Waggon-locking
- 15. Curves
- 16. Tapering and shaving
- 17. Learning The Trade
- Part IV. WHEELS: 18. 'Dish'
- 19. Spokes and felloes
- 20. Stocks
- 21. 'Ringing' the wheel
- 22. Cook
- Part V. TYRING: 23. Getting Ready
- 24. Putting-on
- 25. 'Boxing-on'
- 26. Exbeds
- 27. Bevelled tyres
- Part VI. SMITHING aND SUNDRIES: 28. Shoeing: square tongues
- 29. Shoeing: strakes
- 30. The new Iron Age
- 31. Ordinary iron-work
- 32. The Iron Age moving on
- 33. Will Hammond
- 34. 'Jobbing'
- 35. 'Cutting and shutting'
- 36. Sundry implements
- Part VII. THE OLD ORDER CHANGING: 37. Prices.
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