Colleagues may be interested in this recently published special edition of
Industrial Archaeology Review (27:1), on the theme of 'Understanding the
Workplace'. The journal is now available electronically -
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/iar
Details and table of contents below.
Dan
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Industrial Archaeology Review - Special Issue: Understanding the Workplace
The papers in this volume arose from a conference organised by The
Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA) in Nottingham in June 2004,
with the support of English Heritage, which had the explicit intention of
formulating a research framework for the study of industrial archaeology
in the twenty-first century. Such research frameworks have already been
published for the Iron Age and Roman periods in Britain, and are a
response to the need for research directions in the often fragmented world
of contract archaeology.
This collection of papers breaks away from the usual technologically-
oriented bias of industrial archaeology and seeks to explore the social
agenda of industrialisation, which is of paramount importance in the
examination of the process of transition from an agrarian to an industrial
society through the archaeological remains of the early modern period.
This volume contains the results of that decision and is intended to
demonstrate how far the study of industrialisation is now a fully
recognised element within mainstream archaeology.
The papers have been edited by David Gwyn and Marilyn Palmer, and include
contributions which illuminate the following themes:
- Continuity and change
- Production and consumption
- The use of scientific analysis
- Understanding the workplace
- Landownership and industrialisation
- Transport and industry
- Industrial settlement patterns
- Class, status and identity
- The workforce: pastimes and recreation
- The workforce: welfare and religion
- The international context of industrialisation
LIST OF CONTENTS
Dedication: Peter Neaverson
Introduction
A research agenda for industrial archaeology, Marilyn Palmer
Retrospect and Prospect
Industrial Archaeology: past, present and prospective, Angus Buchanan
(University of Bath)
Industrial Archaeology goes universal, Keith Falconer (English Heritage)
Industrial Heritage and national identities – sharing data, the importance
of context and strategic priorities, Miles Oglethorpe (RCAHM Scotland)
Archaeological science and industrial archaeology – manufacturing,
landscape and social context, Justine Bayley and Jim Williams (EH)
The workplace
Production and consumption, Ray Riley (University of Portsmouth)
Space, society and the textile mill, Ian Mellor (University of York)
Industrial Settlement
Dirty Old Town? Industrial Archaeology and the urban historic environment,
Jim Symonds (ARCUS, Sheffield)
Domestic industry in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries: field
evidence and the research agenda, Geoffrey Timmins (University of Central
Lancashire)
The excavation of industrial era settlements in North-West England,
Eleanor Casella (University of Manchester)
Industry and landownership
Industrialisation, ownership, and the Manchester Methodology: the role of
the contemporary social structure during industrialisation, 1600-1900,
Michael Nevell (University of Manchester Archaeology Unit)
The country house: technology and society, Marilyn Palmer (University of
Leicester)
English woodlands and the supply of fuel for industry, David Crossley
(University of Sheffield)
Farm buildings and the industrial age, Paul Barnwell (English Heritage)
Transport and the Landscape
The chicken or the egg? Industry and transport in East Anglia, David
Alderton (Association for Industrial Archaeology)
Closely observed trains: the landscape of the Vale of Festiniog, David
Gwyn (Govannon Consultancy, Caernarvon)
The workforce: pastimes and recreation
Talking sport or talking balls? Realising the value of the sports
heritage', Jason Wood (Heritage Consultancy Services, Carnforth)
Welcome to the cheap seats: cinemas, sex and landscape, Shaun Richardson
(Ed Dennison Archaeological Services Ltd, Beverley)
The workforce: welfare and religion
Institutional buildings in industrial settlements, Stephen Hughes (RCAHM
Wales)
Death and commemoration, Sarah Tarlow (University of Leicester)
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