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amongst artistic Arts Barnstaple Basketry baskets beautiful bobbin lace bobbins bowls boys Burton-in-Lonsdale carried chiefly Chipping Campden classes clay colour connexion craft-work craftsmen decorative Devon Devonshire difficulty Dorset Dunchurch earn employed enterprise exhibitions factory firing flake flax flint knapping flints flower-pots girls glazes gloves Guild hand hand-loom hand-thrown hand-weavers handicraft handicraft workers Haslemere home crafts home industries Honiton Honiton lace kiln kind Kingsteignton knappers knapping labour lace lace-making Lake District Lincolnshire linen looms makers mats method Midlands mole-catcher needed North Lopham obtain organization out-workers output paid patterns pieces plaiting point ground pots produced quantities raffia rural industries rushes scented ware sell serpentine shops shuttle skill small potteries small rural potteries sold spinning Staffordshire supply Sussex thread thrower trade Verwood village wages warp Wattisfield weavers weaving industry week wheel whilst women Women's Institutes wool workroom woven yarn Yorkshire
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Page vi - ... 1 The men of the towns, however, have a genius for organization, and if it be necessary that their business should be arranged on a basis involving less specialization than at present, or so that some of the evil effects of over-specialization were eliminated, they may be able to modify existing systems without seriously affecting their productivity. The only basis upon which rural industries can be firmly established is that of a high standard of technical knowledge and skill, suitable machinery,...
Page vii - ... to local supplies of raw material and labour, and local markets for the finished products ; (2) the various types of organization in these industries, such as small factories and workrooms or individual production, organizations for the purchase of raw materials or the sale of finished products. Educational facilities and the possibilities of technical instruction were also to be borne in mind in this connexion ; (3) the economic and social effects of rural industries, the conditions of labour...
Page v - ... community of which he is a member. There is little or no distinction between producer and consumer, and one of the chief causes of present social conflicts is non-existent. The worker in the country ' sees the nature of what he is doing ; he is getting products from the land and making use of them by industry. He sees the whole process, and the fact is plain that labour and land are for the sake of himself and others like him who needs the goods. He sees the grain become flour, the wood from...
Page ix - Date. 1919-20 Oxfordshire District. 1920-1 Bedfordshire 1921 Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire 1921-2 Kent, Surrey, and Sussex „ Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire 1922 Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Cheshire „ Herefordshire and Worcestershire „ South Western Counties „ Durham „ Northumberland „ North Riding of Yorkshire „ East and West Ridings of Yorkshire „ Carnarvonshire „ Denbighshire „ Flint 1923 Gloucestershire „ East Anglia and Essex „ Lincolnshire...
Page vi - that, in the revolution of economic principles and systems which is now being made by all sorts and conditions of persons, certain human advantages in rural industries may be set against the greater production of goods by the larger industrial units of the towns," and he concludes, " The only basis upon which rural industries can be firmly established is a high standard of technical knowledge and skill, suitable machinery and commercial organisation.
Page v - ... supersession, and of the possibility of adapting and developing them to serve these same conditions, becomes increasingly apparent. It may be that rural industries can continue to supplement agriculture in the complete rural community, by providing subsidiary employment for the part-time land-worker and the small-holder ; by affording the chance of employment in their own homes or villages to the various members of their families ; by providing certain requisities of agricultural industry.
Page v - ... article, and brings his work into direct relation not only with his own life, but with that of the community of which he is a member. There is little or no distinction between producer and consumer and one of the chief causes of present social conflicts is nonexistent. The worker in the country ' sees the nature of what he is doing ; he is getting products from the land and making them of use by industry.