Book Description
Reveals the stories of girls making their way as apprentices in 17th-century London, through arguments, thefts, profits, and paperwork.
Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 110848638X
Reveals the stories of girls making their way as apprentices in 17th-century London, through arguments, thefts, profits, and paperwork.
Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108787061
Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking women through city archives, it reveals the extent and complexity of their contracts, training and skills, from adolescence to old age. In contrast to the informal, unstructured and marginalised aspects of women's work, this book uses legal records and guild archives to reconstruct women's negotiations with city regulations and bureaucracy. It shows single women, wives and widows establishing themselves in guilds both alongside and separate to men, in a network that extended from elites to paupers and around the country. Through an intensive and creative archival reconstruction, Laura Gowing recovers the significance of apprenticeship in the lives of girls and women, and puts women's work at the heart of the revolution in worldly goods.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Competition, Unfair
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Author : Jason Fagone
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0307591506
An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond—into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite—a start-up backed by millions in venture capital—designs a car that looks like an alien egg. Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US."
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : Nathaniel Whittock
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Page : 546 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Occupations
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Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Business
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Author : S. Roland Hall
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Advertising
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Law
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Vols. 6-13 include issues of the Bulletin of the Legal Aid Society of Chicago.
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Law
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