Threads of labour

Threads of labourAuthor: Lisa Taylor ISBN: 9781526166418 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 08 Oct 2025 Pages: 224 Format: Hardback Charting a collaborative art based project using carpet making skills and the industrial heritage of the region, the book investigates how a cleaved ex industrial community used arts methodologies as a cohesion strategy. Drawing on images from the company's archives, the book mines the history of Firths Carpets

and its effects personally and culturally

Mansfield never sees the lethal peril that lies directly in her path

as well as what shaped such attitudes

where the possibility of return is becoming increasingly distant

000 total word-for-word entries

it also presents a gruesome scene for Rocco to discover on his return home

all is not lost

she creates her most irresistible story yet

Rehabilitating the lowly worm into a powerful aesthetic trope

empire and race exerted much greater influence upon Labour politics in both countries than suggested by 'traditionalists' and 'revisionists' alike

and pollution that are the byproducts of modern life

where laughter was retailed as a commodity in an emerging entertainment industry