[Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and material culture

[Dave Morton]

Not textiles, but there's a new book by David Lucsko, Junkyards, 
Gearheads and Rust 
<https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/junkyards-gearheads-and-rust>  
on DIY auto maintenance and related stuff.  Reviewed in the latest T&C 
by somebody or other..

Dave Morton



On 5/4/2017 9:34 AM, Cowan, Ruth S wrote:
>
> It does occur to me, Steve, that maintenance of textiles is often 
> referred to as “doing laundry,” so you might want to look at Arwen 
> Mohun’s book on laundry workers.
>
> There is also graduate student at Wisconsin doing a dissertation on 
> laundering; I don’t know how far along she is, but she will surely 
> know the journal literature on the subject: Spring Greeney, 
> sgreeney at wisc.edu <mailto:sgreeney at wisc.edu>.
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>
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> Author (with Matthew H. Hersch) of _A Social History of American 
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> *From:*themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu 
> [mailto:themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu] *On Behalf Of *Lee 
> Vinsel
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 03, 2017 12:22 PM
> *To:* Steven Lubar <steven_lubar at brown.edu>
> *Cc:* themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and 
> material culture
>
> Hi, Steve!
>
> Thanks for the question. For a general bibliography of 
> maintenance/repair, I've seen lots of folks—including Andy Russell and 
> me—rely on this handy list put together by Alain Bovet of the 
> Wohnforum at ETH Zurich (note: it doesn't capture publications 
> post-2015): 
> http://www.wohnforum.arch.ethz.ch/sites/default/files/dateien/bibliography_repair_work10.03.2015_2.pdf
>
> See also their project description: 
> http://www.wohnforum.arch.ethz.ch/en/repair-maintenance-and-urban-assemblage
>
> Regarding textiles, I don't have specific sources, though I am 
> generally interested in how some industrialized nations moved from a 
> world where repairing clothing was the norm to a world where most 
> clothing was/is disposable. (Historian Nina Lerman got me thinking 
> about this.) With this thought in mind, I've been hoping to return to 
> Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's _Age of Homespun_ to see if she addresses any 
> of these themes. (She does cover many maintenance/repair related 
> topics in her midwife book.)
>
> I also know that some STS scholars are interested in the 
> maintenance/repair of textiles and have been exploring related, 
> typically-gendered metaphors, like "mending." But sadly I don't know 
> where to point you for this work. Perhaps some other folks on this 
> list will know.
>
> Best,
>
> Lee
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Steven Lubar <steven_lubar at brown.edu 
> <mailto:steven_lubar at brown.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Any suggestions for readings that might be useful for a graduate
>     course? I'm especially interested in textiles.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Steve
>
>
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