• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue
• Iintroduction
• The Craft of the Chairmaker
• The Craftsman
• The Master
• The Apprentice
• The Journeyman
• Partnerships
• Migration
• Working Hours, Wages, and Dress
• Mechanic and Manufacturing Societies and Trade Organizations
• Dual and Supplementary Trades and Occupations
• Business Reverses and Disasters
• Prison Work
• Facilities, Equipment, and Materials
• Facilities and Equipment
• Materials and Sources
• Shop Energy Sources
• The Manufactory and the Wareroom
• Construction and Design
• Construction
• Design
• Surface Treatments
• Stuffed Work and Seating Materials
• Merchandising and Consumerism
• Marketing and Markets
• Prerevolutionary Evidence of Exportation
• Postrevolutionary Eighteenth-Century Trade: Coastal
• Postrevolutionary Eighteenth-Century Trade: Foreign
• Early Nineteenth-Century Trade: Coastal
• Early Nineteenth-Century Trade: Foreign
• Inland Distribution and the Dissemination of Furniture Design
• Sales Techniques
• Payment for Goods and Services
• Transportation and Packaging
• The Role of Windsor Seating in American Life
• Domestic Use
• Use by Cultural and Social Groups
• Commercial Use
• Institutional Use
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Color plates follow pages 144 and 288