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Discuss the range of activities involved in working in textile factories in the long nineteenth century, and how these changed during the period covered by the course.
Assess representations of working lives in textile factories and surviving texts and artefacts from the period, and discuss how they relate to wider questions of class, gender, and professional identity.
Compare written and oral material on workers’ lives within the appropriate historical and material contexts.
Engage online and other archives in order to locate material relevant to the history of textile factories and workers’ lives.
课程概况
On this course, you’ll explore the relationship between textile factory labour in the past and British industrial heritage today.
You’ll delve into a fascinating period of development for one of Britain’s key industries and discover how workers’ lives changed throughout the Victorian period, as they adjusted to new professional identities, workplaces and technology.
Through video, you’ll be introduced to four different millworkers’ heritage sites: New Lanark, Stanley Mills in Perthshire, Verdant Works in Dundee and Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, as you explore their history.
课程大纲
Explore the range of activities involved in working in factories and mills in the long nineteenth century, and how these changed during the period covered by the course.
Assess representations of millworkers from this period, as well as writings by the workers themselves, and discuss how they relate to wider questions of class, gender, and professional identity.
Investigate how museums represent factory workers.
Locate material relevant to this field through online archives.
面向人群
This course is designed for anyone interested in working-class history and literature, the Victorian period, industrial heritage or museums, and those exploring family or local histories related to this industry.
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