Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Map of the weaving towns and villages of north-east Lancashire in 1821
- 1 Problems and sources
- 2 The organization of the industry
- 3 The labour force
- 4 The coming of the powerloom
- 5 Wages: (I) The piece-rate
- 6 Wages: (II) Earnings and the standard of living
- 7 Public opinion and the handloom weavers
- 8 Organized industrial action among the cotton handloom weavers
- 9 The weavers and radical politics
- 10 The problem of poverty
- 11 Displacement and disappearance
- Appendix 1 Some piece-rate series
- Appendix 2 The piece-rate and the price of food
- Appendix 3 G. H. Wood's estimates of average weekly earnings
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Map of the weaving towns and villages of north-east Lancashire in 1821
- 1 Problems and sources
- 2 The organization of the industry
- 3 The labour force
- 4 The coming of the powerloom
- 5 Wages: (I) The piece-rate
- 6 Wages: (II) Earnings and the standard of living
- 7 Public opinion and the handloom weavers
- 8 Organized industrial action among the cotton handloom weavers
- 9 The weavers and radical politics
- 10 The problem of poverty
- 11 Displacement and disappearance
- Appendix 1 Some piece-rate series
- Appendix 2 The piece-rate and the price of food
- Appendix 3 G. H. Wood's estimates of average weekly earnings
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Handloom Weavers , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1969