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This 5 page paper profiles the man who has been praised for creating an extremely successful enterprise in the eighteenth century. He is most well known for the type of Wedgwood pottery sold today in light blue with decorative white reliefs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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devices. Josiah Wedgwood was a leader of the day. He was an entrepreneur and seen as a hero by some. His eighteenth century factory was wondrous and became a
model for urban industrialization of the future. While most businessmen look at Wedgwood in awe, thinking of him as a genius, one wonders how he was able to get
people to work longer hours and impose his labor regimen on a free people. A look at his life and times may help to shed light on the answer to
that puzzling thought. Josiah Wedgwood was a potter, born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England ("Wedgwood" PG). He grew up working in the familys pottery business and later, in 1754, in his
middle twenties, became a partner of Thomas Whieldon (PG). It was at this time that he began to devise and improve the products (PG). In 1759, Wedgwood opened a factory
at Burslem and, ten years after that, opened one near Hanley, which he named "Etruria" (PG). He created a new method using unglazed black basalt ware and blue jasper ware
with raised white designs (PG). These are likely familiar to most in contemporary society today. Wedgwood is a popular pottery style and its appeal had never faded. It
should be emphasized that when the Wedgwood products were first introduced, they were quite unique. Today, it they are appreciated but taken for granted to an extent. Catherine the Great
was a consumer of the new products as was Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III (Kramer 48). One product of Wedgwoods was fine-quality earthenware that had an off-white color
and was used as it was or decoratively painted (48). The creamware became quite popular in Britain and in the colonies of North America (48). What made Wedgwood different was
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