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The last shift : the decline of handloom weaving in nineteenth-century Lancashire

Title: The last shift : the decline of handloom weaving in nineteenth-century Lancashire / Geoffrey Timmins.
Author: Timmins, Geoffrey.
Publication: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1993], ©1993.

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Description

xi, 253 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

Handloom industry > Lancashire > History > 19th century

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Contents

Technological change during British industrialisation. Sectoral studies of domestic outwork. The cotton industry and outwork -- 1. The changing balance in weaving technology: an overview. The rise of the powerloom. The demise of hand weaving -- 2. The economic importance of hand weaving in the early nineteenth century. Numbers of handloom weavers. Geographical variation. Impact on settlement formation -- 3. The nature of the hand weaving labour force. The emergence of the specialist weaver. The change to cotton weaving -- 4. The onset of decline in cotton hand weaving. The impact of the mid-1830s trade upturn. Intra-regional variation -- 5. The survival of hand weaving in the mid-Victorian period. Overall numbers and dependency. Age/sex distribution -- 6. The means of survival. Hand weavers and family income. Type of fabric -- 7. Mid-Victorian hand weavers: reasons for survival. Historiographical issues. New perspectives -- App. A1. Computing hand weaver numbers in early nineteenth century Lancashire.
App. A2. Computing hand weaver numbers in mid-Victorian Lancashire -- App. A3. Statistical techniques.

ISBN

0719037255

LCCN

92026876

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