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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 256219, member: 29&quot;]Nope, it isn&#039;t, it&#039;s totally wrong. The Industrial Revolution started here in the 18th C and included the mechanisation of furniture processes: machine cut veneers, parquetry and dovetails for example. Mouldings and decoration, carving, the lot. The Victorians were great ones for technology and would apply it to anything in sight. What did happen was that our Arts and Crafts Movement, in the late 19th Century, went back to simplicity and hand made furniture. But that was just one strand. </p><p><br /></p><p>Guilds and Unions are two different things. Guilds were and are for craftsmen and specialists in certain trades or occupations - that might include apprenticeships, ranks and grades and so forth. That actually includes IT, now. Trades unions were all about organised labour to gain better working conditions. </p><p><br /></p><p>You might like this: <a href="http://www.crafts.org.uk/getdoc/892312b7-9cc9-4597-acb5-56eea97d8b86/2--A-Short-History-of-Furniture.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.crafts.org.uk/getdoc/892312b7-9cc9-4597-acb5-56eea97d8b86/2--A-Short-History-of-Furniture.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.crafts.org.uk/getdoc/892312b7-9cc9-4597-acb5-56eea97d8b86/2--A-Short-History-of-Furniture.aspx</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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