• 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