Material goods, moving hands : perceiving production in England, 1700-1830

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Material goods, moving hands : perceiving production in England, 1700-1830

Kate Smith

(Studies in design)

Manchester University Press, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-177) and index

Explores how individuals understood production processes in new ways during the eighteenth century. It examines a series of different groups - consumers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and workers - to show how their means of perceiving production changed in this period. In doing so, it reorients current discussions of consumption and production to see them as interrelated entities

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  • New ways of looking
  • Visual access to production
  • Listening in to the manufacturing world
  • Picturing production and embodying knowledge

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