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- Book Title
- Shoddy : from Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
- Publication Name
- Shoddy
- Title
- Shoddy
- Subtitle
- From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780226377759
- ISBN
- 9780226377759
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 19th Century, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, History, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
- Release Date
- 03/09/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Series
- Science.Culture
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material made from reclaimed wool. Shoddy was, in fact, one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling as old rags and fabric clippings were ground into "devil's dust" and respun to be used in the making of suits, army uniforms, carpet lining, mattress stuffing, and more. In Shoddy , Hanna Rose Shell takes readers on a vivid ride beginning in West Yorkshire's Heavy Woollen District and its "shoddy towns," and traveling to the United States, the developing world, and waste dumps, textile labs, and rag shredding factories, in order to unravel the threads of this story and its long history. Since the time of its first appearance, shoddy was both pervasive and controversial on multiple levels. The use of the term "virgin" wool--still noticeable today in the labels on our sweaters--thus emerged as an effort by the wool industry to counter shoddy's appeal: to make shoddy seem shoddy . Public health experts, with encouragement from the wool industry, worried about sanitation and disease--how could old clothes be disinfected? As well, the idea of wearing someone else's old clothes so close to your own skin was discomforting in and of itself. Could you sleep peacefully knowing that your mattress was stuffed with dead soldiers' overcoats? Over time, shoddy the noun was increasingly used as an adjective that, according to Shell, captured a host of personal, ethical, commercial, and societal failings. Introducing us to many richly drawn characters along the way, Shell reveals an interwoven tale of industrial espionage, political infighting, scientific inquiry, ethnic prejudices, and war profiteering. By exploring a variety of sources from political and literary texts to fabric samples and old military uniforms, antique and art photographs and political cartoons, medical textbooks, and legal cases, Shell unspools the history of shoddy to uncover the surprising journey that individual strands of recycled wool - and more recently a whole range of synthetic fibers from nylon to Kevlar - may take over the course of several lifetimes. Not only in your garments and blankets, but under your rug, in your mattress pads, the peculiar confetti-like stuffing in your mailing envelopes, even the insulation in your walls. The resulting fabric is at once rich and sumptuous, and cheap and tawdry--and likely connected to something you are wearing right now. After reading, you will never use the word shoddy or think about your clothes, or even the world around you, the same way again.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022637775x
ISBN-13
9780226377759
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038906568
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shoddy : from Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 19th Century, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, History, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd9909.S59s54 2020
Reviews
In a brilliantly quixotic, scholarly rich, fabulously illustrated trek, Shell guides readers through the history of the reprocessing of used clothing and textiles, reflecting on human ornament, fears of contagion (think of the associations of 'shoddy' versus 'virgin' wool), and the evolution of a vast industry., Shoddy is that rare book that takes you from the direct experiences you share with the author (what to do with your used clothes? the feeling of 'doing good' when you donate them to clothe someone 'less fortunate') to the larger social, economic, historical, and, yes, moral universe in which those experiences live. Shell takes us on this kind of journey by searching for shoddy. Through her, we learn about the human costs of the Industrial Revolution, British Chartism, the economic realities of the American Civil War, the ideas that animated dissent--of Carlyle, Disraeli, and Marx, just for a start--and so much more, all through the eyes of shoddy. It is an exemplary book in its use of the visual record to weave a narrative that implicates current practice, not just in how we do scholarship across a range of fields in media and science and technology studies, but how we think about ourselves. Shoddy is a book that will change your mind., Shoddy is a sophisticated history that attends to the rich network of interrelation that is inherent in even the most familiar of our things. Shell writes that 'shoddy's constantly shifting manifestation in space, time, and states of decomposition and recomposition binds nature and artifact, found and forged, wasted and wanted, in the unseen bits and inscrutabilities at the core of objects of our everyday existence.' Shell gets at the heart of everyday life's essential material strangeness, and the intimate relation one has with the ghosts from which it is composed -- break it all down far enough, and everything is dust, everything is molecule, surrounded by its wandering threads., What makes Shoddy so remarkable is the author's ambivalence about her subject, her acknowledgment of the mills' odor and squalor together with her appreciation of the communities (and the rhubarb farms) the industry nourished. She discovers a romantic side of what others might dismiss as malodorous heaps of waste: the exotic weeds that flourished from seeds that traveled across the oceans with their moldering cargo to take root on British soil., As textile consumption exploded in the nineteenth century, discarded cloth gained a second life; it provided the raw material for 'shoddy' fabrics that would enter the homes of enslaved workers, attire Civil War soldiers, and provide material for blankets and mattress fillings. Shell's fast-paced meditation on the economic, cultural, and ideological histories of shoddy takes you around the world and into some of the most profound questions about capitalism--from its endless capacity for innovation to its unending appetite for ever more resources. Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags extends the history of the empire of fibers into the most surprising corners of our history and our modern life., As textile consumption exploded in the nineteenth century, discarded cloth gained a second life; it provided the raw material for 'shoddy' fabrics that would enter the homes of enslaved workers, attire Civil War soldiers, and provide material for blankets and mattress fillings. Shell's fast-paced meditation on the economic, cultural,and ideological histories of shoddy takes you around the world and into some of the most profound questions about capitalism--from its endless capacity for innovation to its unending appetite for ever more resources. Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags extends the history of the empire of fibers into the most surprising corners of our history and our modern life., Shell has infused the history of shoddy-a cheap shredded material nowadays often used to fill mattresses-with a keen sense of drama. There are three 'acts,' rather than chapters, and a heavyweight cast of thinkers. Theoretical sophistication combines with narrative thrust in a remarkable story that moves from nineteenth-century England to today's global ecological concerns around fast fashion., The fascinating story of how a respectable textile product became synonymous with all things inferior. . . . [Shell] writes with an eye for both vivid visuals and historical links. . . . it's a fun ride., Situated on the side of a motorway that connects the cities of Liverpool and Hull in England is a giant pile of old dark rags, socks, and other decomposed fabrics. To some, the 20-foot-tall heap resembles a geological formation. To Hanna Rose Shell, a visiting professor of history at Caltech, the heap is a thing of beauty. Not only for the occasional rhinestones and buttons scattered among the debris but because the contents of the heap, known as shoddy, are a perfect metaphor for the concept of rebirth in society and history. . . . Shell's new book about shoddy covers the history and cultural influences of the recycled material across the globe, from Haiti to the U.S. to the 'shoddy towns' of England., Shoddy is that rare book that takes you from the direct experiences you share with the author (what to do with your used clothes? the feeling of 'doing good' when you donate them to clothe someone 'less fortunate') to the larger social, economic, historical, and yes, moral universe in which those experiences live. Shell brings gives us this kind of journey by searching for shoddy. Through her we learn about the human costs of the industrial revolution, learn about British Chartism, the economic realities of the American Civil War, learn about the ideas that animated dissent--Carlyle, Disraeli, and Marx, just for a start, and so much more, all through the eyes of shoddy. It is an exemplary book in its use of the visual record to weave a narrative that implicates current practice, not just in how we do scholarship across a range of fields in media and science and technology studies, but how we think about ourselves. Shoddy is a book that will change your mind., This fascinating book, laden with historical insights, takes us on a journey from the nineteenth-century origins of shoddy, made from reclaimed wool in the industrial heart of Yorkshire, to the wider world via contexts of politics, war, contagion, and death. Enlightened by the words of contemporary writers and thinkers and by photographic records, the author explores the many dimensions of a textile that became functionally essential for the likes of army uniforms, blankets, and shrouds. Shoddy offers a timely case study for the possibilities of material recovery and of the critical role of textiles to the human experience; it will appeal to historians, textile experts, and general readers, including those with interest in sustainability and recycling., Shoddy is that rare book that takes you from the direct experiences you share with the author (what to do with your used clothes? the feeling of 'doing good' when you donate them to clothe someone 'less fortunate') to the larger social, economic, historical, and yes, moral universe in which those experiences live. Shell takes us on this kind of journey by searching for shoddy. Through her we learn about the human costs of the industrial revolution, learn about British Chartism, the economic realities of the American Civil War, learn about the ideas that animated dissent--Carlyle, Disraeli, and Marx, just for a start, and so much more, all through the eyes of shoddy. It is an exemplary book in its use of the visual record to weave a narrative that implicates current practice, not just in how we do scholarship across a range of fields in media and science and technology studies, but how we think about ourselves. Shoddy is a book that will change your mind.
Table of Content
Prologue: Finding Shoddy Old Clothes Odyssey The Heap Act I: Devil's Dust Emergence of an Industry Narratives of Transmutation, Myths of Invention Devil's Dust Politics Material Philosophy and the Shredded Self Shoddy as Paradox and Marx's "Excrements of Consumption" Act II: Textile Skin The Wear of War Textile Skin and "the Sinews of War" Shoddy and the Body Politic Photography and the "Harvest of Death" On Shrouds and Shoddy Act III: Lively Things Miasma and Contagion Consolidation of Clothes and Corpses Disinfection and Its Discontents The Intimate Materiality of the Unknowable Liveliness and Formlessness Epilogue: Shoddy Renaissance Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2020
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2020-001639
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