Every Object Had a Maker
Life Before Standard Goods
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Beschreibung
Every ordinary object carried a chain of decisions about material, skill, price, and the person who would depend on it.
A chair, a shoe, a pot, or a length of cloth once arrived through networks of makers whose work was personal, local, and often slow. This book explores the economies of everyday production before factories made uniformity widely available. It considers apprenticeships, household labor, trade guilds, repair, and the careful choices behind goods meant to last. The preindustrial world appears as a busy system of skills and relationships, not merely a waiting room for industry.
Autor*in
Brandon Lockwood
Writes about frontier mythology, territorial conflict, and political storytelling.
Themen in »Every Object Had a Maker«
life before mass production handmade goods history guilds and crafts preindustrial economy history of repair artisan workshops