"Shales offers rich and compelling insights into the discussion of industrial arts. His deft handling of a wide variety of source material-from visual and material culture to performance culture, from educational philosophy to economic policy, and from craft romanticism to scientific management-distinguishes this book as an important contribution to design history, used in the broadest and best sense. It is a gripping story of shifting alliances and goals." - Edward S. Cooke Jr. (Yale University) " Made in Newark is no ordinary museum history. By dismantling boundaries between art, artisanship, and industry, Shales provides a view of a past moment that looks very much like a future to strive for. Setting a huge range of production into a richly described social setting, he shows how truly moving and enlightening interdisciplinary history can be.

" - Glenn Adamson (Victoria and Albert Museum) "Shales draws on an impressive array of sources to weave ideas about education, citizenship, economics, cultural pluralism, and the role of the museum in a manufacturing town. The result is an intensive and intriguing view of the past." (American Craft).