The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.
We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.