Women art workers constitutes the first comprehensive history of the
network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts
movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long-standing
assumption that Arts and Crafts solely revolved around celebrated male
designers like William Morris, this book instead offers a new social and
cultural account, which simultaneously reveals the breadth of the
imprint of women art workers upon the making of modern society. From
their precarious gendered positions, they opened up the movement to a
wider range of social backgrounds and interests, and redirected its
radical potential into contemporary women-centred causes.