Tailored Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities (1880 Communities Professional and Labour Clothes, Trades: Tailored 1939)

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specific uniforms or dresses became the markers of professional identity and social mobility. At the turn of of turn the At mobility. social and identity professional of markers the became dresses or uniforms specific

wear industry. Social mobility expressed itself in new sartorial patterns and and patterns sartorial new in itself expressed mobility Social industry. wear - to - ready the launched clothing

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working hours and environments, a transformation of clothes paralleled this revolution in trades and and trades in revolution this paralleled clothes of transformation a environments, and hours working

factory and clerical workers, shop girls and other members of a newly established workforce faced changing changing faced workforce established newly a of members other and girls shop workers, clerical and factory

trades and industries created employment possibilities for an increasingly professionalised workforce. While While workforce. professionalised increasingly an for possibilities employment created industries and trades

During the long 19th century mechanised manufacturing, accelerated modes of production and innovative innovative and production of modes accelerated manufacturing, mechanised century 19th long the During

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programme. Communities Connected Council's Research Humanities and Arts the by funded is Network

assisted in the development of professional communities at the turn of the 20th century (1880 century 20th the of turn the at communities professional of development the in assisted 1939). The The 1939). -

the Bishopsgate Institute, this Research Network investigates how clothes and labour influenced and and influenced labour and clothes how investigates Network Research this Institute, Bishopsgate the

Organised jointly by researchers at the University of Exeter and Northumbria University, and partnered by by partnered and University, Northumbria and Exeter of University the at researchers by jointly Organised

Tailored Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities (1880 Communities Professional and Labour Clothes, Trades: Tailored 1939) -

interrelated histories of work and clothes at the turn of the 20th century. century. 20th the of turn the at clothes and work of histories interrelated

clothes, fashion, and appearance has brought her to the current research project "Tailored Trades" on the the on Trades" "Tailored project research current the to her brought has appearance and fashion, clothes,

completing a second book on interwar women novelists and fashion. This recent academic interest in in interest academic recent This fashion. and novelists women interwar on book second a completing

. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters on modernist literature, she is now now is she literature, modernist on chapters book and articles numerous to addition In . Modernity

the medical sciences. It was published in 2010 by the University Press of Florida as as Florida of Press University the by 2010 in published was It sciences. medical the Joyce, Medicine, and and Medicine, Joyce,

medicine and has written a monograph on the Irish writer James Joyce and his lifelong engagement with with engagement lifelong his and Joyce James writer Irish the on monograph a written has and medicine

century literature and culture. She is particularly interested in the relationship between literature and and literature between relationship the in interested particularly is She culture. and literature century

Germany but received her MA and PhD from the University of York. Her research focuses on early 20th 20th early on focuses research Her York. of University the from PhD and MA her received but Germany

is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter. She grew up in in up grew She Exeter. of University the at Literature English in Lecturer Senior is Plock Martina Vike Dr

down” to blend in with the East End residents to explore in detail “how the other half lives.” half other the “how detail in explore to residents End East the with in blend to down”

class authors and philanthropists “dressed “dressed philanthropists and authors class - middle how discuss also will It period. same the from writers

at the ways in which the sweated industries are represented in literary texts by Jack London and other other and London Jack by texts literary in represented are industries sweated the which in ways the at This talk will focus on the popularity of slum tourism at the turn of the 20th century. In particular, it will look look will it particular, In century. 20th the of turn the at tourism slum of popularity the on focus will talk This

7.30pm | 2014 May 22 Thursday

Plock Martina Vike Dr Speaker:

End East the of Industries

Slum Tourism and the Sweated Sweated the and Tourism Slum

Century Century - the - of - Turn London, Jack

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