1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910734700003321

Autore

Nenadic Stana

Titolo

Craftworkers in nineteenth-century Scotland : making and adapting in an industrial age / / Stana Nenadic [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021

©2022

ISBN

1-3995-1354-0

1-4744-9309-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Collana

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

745.509411

Soggetti

Artisans - Scotland - History - 19th century

Handicraft - Scotland - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction: Craftworkers Today and in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 1. Edinburgh and the Luxury Crafts -- 2. Industrial Crafts: Glasgow and Beyond -- 3. Rural Craft in the Lowlands and Highlands -- 4. Tourism and Craftwork -- 5. Country-house Building and Furnishing -- 6. Exhibiting Craftwork -- 7. Amateur Craft -- Conclusion: Evaluating the Craft Economy -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text examines individuals, families, and communities of craftworkers and their changing experience in town and country. Based on case studies drawn from personal, business, institutional and official records, as well as newspaper reports and visual illustrations, it looks at workplace dynamics and handmade wares shaped by personal consumption, rather than industrial production. Stana Nenadic examines the 'things' that were made and the values they embodied at a time when most Scots were still engaged in hand making - either for income or pleasure - despite Scotland's emergence as a great industrial powerhouse.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910208827303321

Titolo

Commodity chains and world cities / / edited by Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

9786612774751

9781444328264

1444328263

9781444328271

1444328271

9781282774759

1282774751

9781444351965

1444351966

Descrizione fisica

vii, 200 p. : ill., maps

Altri autori (Persone)

DerudderBen

WitloxFrank

Disciplina

332.64/4

Soggetti

Primary commodities

Cities and towns

Urban economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

World cities and global commodity chains: an introduction / Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox -- World city networks and global commodity chains: towards a world-systems' integration / Ed Brown ... [et al.] -- Global cities in global commodity chains: exploring the role of Mexico City in the geography of global economic governance / Christof Parnreiter -- City networks and commodity chains: identifying global flows and local connections in Ho Chi Minh city / Ingeborg Vind and Niels Fold -- Cities, material flows and the geography of spatial interaction: urban places in the system of chains / Markus Hesse -- Integrating world cities into production networks: the case of port cities / Wouter Jacobs, Cesar Ducruet and Peter De Langen -- Intra-firm and



extra-firm linkages in the knowledge economy: the case of the emerging mega-city region of munich / Stefan Lüthi, Alain Thierstein and Viktor Goebel -- Making connections: global production networks and world city networks / Neil M. Coe ... [et al.] -- Global inter-city networks and commodity chains: any intersections? / Saskia Sassen -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks in this area: the world city network (WCN) framework, in which researchers have studied the emergence of a globalized urban system; and secondly, the global commodity chain (GCC) framework, in which researchers have scrutinized the interconnected functions, operations and transactions through which specific goods are produced, distributed and consumed in a globalized economy. Both literatures have emerged as critiques of conventional, state-centric social science interpretations of their subject matters, and they both propose what might be called 'global network alternatives'. Bringing together contributions of key researchers from human geography, economics, and sociology, the editors take advantage of this parallel to investigate how both models may benefit from each other"--