Pottery Trade and North Staffordshire, 1660-1760
Details:
- Author(s) Weatherill, Lorna M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1971
- Pages 174pp; illus
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work based on the writer's 'Pottery Trade and North Staffordshire, 1660-1760', MA dissertation, Keele University, 1968. Deals with the industry in the pre-industrial revolution period using new sources, notably probate inventories of Burslem, to produce an economic history. Chapters include: 'Growth'; 'Raw materials'; 'Processes'; 'Domestic?'; 'Primitive?'; 'Markets'; 'Wages'; 'Burslem a town?'; 'Burslem and pottery'. An appendix provides a schedule of c200 Burslem and other probate inventories