The Framework Knitters and Handloom Weavers: Their Attempts to Keep Up Wages; Eight Pamphlets, 1820-1845, Volume 10 |
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a-week afford amongst amount Average earnings Bailie BARLESTONE Boards of Trade body branch candles capital cause Chiefly classes clothing coals Cobbett Committee competition condition consequence corn Corn Laws cotton hose Council DAVID GEMMEL demand deponent depression Derbyshire distress district effect employed employers employment evil fact factories foreign frame-work knitters Framework-knitters GEORGE POULETT SCROPE give Guages not taken hand-loom weavers hands hosiers hosiery trade House rent IBSTOCK improvement increased industry JAMES John Kilsyth Kirkintilloch labour Leicester Leicestershire less Loom Weavers machinery manufacture masters necessary Nottingham Nottinghamshire number of frames obtain operation opinion paid parish persons petition Power Loom present principle produce profit proportion Prud'hommes rate of wages regulations Ribbed seaming silk SKEGBY society socks Spitalfields Spurious statement stocking stocking frame sufferings supply taken Guages Thomas tion Unem week wide frame Width William Woodborough work-people workmen wrought