Article: Josiah Wedgwood.(Book Review)

Josiah Wedgwood: Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment. Brian Dolan. Harper Collins. [pounds sterling]25.00. xii + 480 pages. ISBN 0-00-713901-2. The great Wedgwood company was a product of Josiah Wedgwood who had been born into a Burslem pottery family. Despite several physical disabilities he transformed the pottery into one of the world's most famous 'brands'. How he did this is the story told here. His skill lay in his innovations and in raising the standards of those who worked for him. He was an enlightened employer, a fore-runner of men such as Salt, Cadbury and Lever in the nineteenth century. He stood for 'elite taste ...

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