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A History of the Amateur Woodworking Movement
A Decade-by-Decade Narrative of Amateur Woodworking in America From 1900 to 2000
Appendices:
Appendices Deal With Issues Special to Woodworking History, Incident to the Main Inquiry, But Sit Outside the Narrative
An Online Book -- Raymond McInnis -- Amateur Woodworker
Home Contents Appendices Authors Documents
Glossary Intro and Glossary Annexes
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Narrative Chapters
Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3 Chap 4 Chap 5 Chap 6 Chap 7 Chap 8 Chap 9 Chap 10 Chap 11 Chap 12
Headnote for Manuals Manuals by Decade
1900-before 1901-1910 1911-1920 1921-1930 1931-1940 1941-1950 1951-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2001 2001-later
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Two Pivotal Decades: the 1920s and the 1950s [under construction]
As the 21st century unfolds, it's only natural that we speculate about the last century's impact. Change in all areas abounds, especially during the two pivotal decades: the 1920s and the 1950s.
Both decades followed the economic and social changes and industrial innovation generated by a major war: WW I (1914-1918) and WW II (1939-1945).
The two decades, were, each in their own right, periods of rapid social, economic, industrial change.
Think About These Developments:
1920s 1950s Urban Electrification Electrification Nationally Electric Clothes Washers Electric Clothes Dryers Automobiles, De-tached,
Unheated, Unwired GarageAttached Two-Car Garages Production Lines
in Manufacturing PlantsElectronic Components Dirt Roads Interstate Highway System Red Scare Cold War Fractional-Horse Power Motors Small Universal Motors
for RoutersRadio Television Socket-Driven Electric Tools Wired Workshops Motors, Pulleys and Line Shafts
Power Several MachinesElectric Motor Powers Each Machine
What else?
Definitely education and scholarship, since I spent my career there, an area with which I am very familiar. Now, while I agree that scholarship of either decade is not entirely relevant to the topic at hand, the history of the amateur woodworking movement, in a way this scholarship is significant: the 1920s saw the flowering of several disciplines, especially sociology, social and cultural history, that are so important today for revealing the formerly hidden aspects of the daily lives of Americans. In the the 1950s, in the wake of WW II, these disciplines matured and flourished to even greater levels.
In Appendix 28, for example, I argue that a parallel exists between the function of the cookbook in the kitchen and the woodworker's manual in the woodshop, to build the case, I depend upon an existing scholarship on cookbooks. In turn, though, this scholarship of cookbooks itself is supported by decades of scholarship on America's cultures. (In the future I want to explore the the concept, "from production to consumption" below.)