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Threads of labour: Tapestry of an ex-industrial community by Lisa Taylor

• Threads of labour: Tapestry of an ex-industrial community
• Lisa Taylor
• Page: 256
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781526166418
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Threads of labour: Tapestry of an ex-industrial community

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Charting a collaborative art-based project using carpet-making skills and the industrial heritage of the region, the book investigates how a cleaved ex-industrial community used arts methodologies as a cohesion strategy. Drawing on images from the company’s archives, the book mines the history of Firths Carpets Limited, a firm that carpeted interiors across the globe from the mid-1800s. Women’s labour and tastes were business critical to the production and sale of Firths carpets. Drawing on the author’s personal connection to the village, an ethnographic sensibility and novel research techniques, ex-worker responses to a village radically altered by ruination are explored. Ex-workers felt nostalgia for the dignity of work and a sense of homesickness in a village ghosted by industrial spectres of the past. Threads of Labour argues that left-behind deindustrialised places require acts of social re-making if their communities are to survive.

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