The Fabric of Resistance
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- The Fabric of Resistance Political craft history and lessons for today’s craft movement Rayna Fahey
- We live, dance, sleep, work, craft and play on Aboriginal Land
- Industrial revolution • Mass shift from handmade cottage industries to machine based manufacturing • End to mutual-aid based subsistence communities • Concept of work moved out of homes and farms and into centralised factories • Mass unemployment in fabric and textile based craft industries
- Luddites • Direct action movement • Started with lace and hosiery workers near Nottingham • First attacks in 1811 • “Machine breaking” made a capital crime in 1812 • 17 men executed under this law • Countless men transported to Australia
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