"Andy Dingley" wrote in message

The Arts and Crafts movement is a late Victorian reaction, primarily to
the dehumanising effects of factory life on the workers. Ruskin and
Morris saw it less in terms of products and more in terms of those
involved.

snipped only for brevity

Very well stated in its entirety.

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