Victorian Housebuilding
Details:
- Author(s) Wedd, Kit
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2012
- Pages 56pp; illus
- Publisher Shire Publications
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
'Explores the day to day life of the subcontractor and craftsman who built the residential suburbs that represent the bulk of the Victorian construction industry's output. Where did they come from? How did they learn their trade? What did they wear? What were their wages and how did they spend them?'. In reality much more about the construction process and individual trades and building materials in an era when building was done by subcontracting rather than by the general building contractor. Much about the individual trades - bricklayers, plumbers, carpenters and joiners, decorators, roofers, scaffolders, foundation diggers, etc, their processes, materials, etc. Sections cover: 1] suburban development - nature and progress; 2] house designs; 3] onsite building activity - the different types of tradesmen; 4] the working life of the tradesmen - conditions, wages, etc