Charting a collaborative artbased project using carpetmaking skills and the industrial heritage of the region, the book investigates how a cleaved exindustrial community used arts methodologies as a cohesion strategy. Drawing on images from the companys archives, the book mines the history of Firths Carpets Limited, a firm that carpeted interiors across the globe from the mid1800s. Womens labour and tastes were business critical to the production and sale of Firths carpets. Drawing on the authors personal connection to the village, an ethnographic sensibility and novel research techniques, exworker responses to a village radically altered by ruination are explored. Exworkers felt nostalgia for the dignity of work and a sense of homesickness in a village ghosted by industrial spectres of the past. Threads of Labour argues that leftbehind deindustrialised places require acts of social remaking if their communities are to survive.

Binding: Hardback;252 pages; Publisher: Manchester University Press (P648); Classification: JHB; Weight: 556 g; Dimensions: 223 x 149 x 20

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