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Author Mohanty, Gail Fowler

Title Labor and Laborers of the Loom : Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780-1840
Published Hoboken : CRC Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (292 pages)
Contents Front cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter One. Of Oil, Seed, and Flock; Chapter Two. Of the Weaver's Art, and Organization of Labor; Chapter Three. "I am well acquainted with working a spring shuttle and think myself a master of the business": Beginnings and Experimentation 1787-1791; Chapter Four. Giving Out the Psalm: Samuel Slater and the Arkwright System of Manufacture 1790-1800; Chapter Five. "I will thank you to put yarn out to good weavers only"; Chapter Six. "All other Inventions were Thrown into the Shade."
Summary Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population of extra-factory workers distinguishes this study. The volume centers on the rapid growth of handloom weaving in response to the introduction of water powered spinning. This change is viewed from the perspectives of mechanics, technological limitations, characteristics of weaving, skills, income and cost. In the works of Duncan Bythell and Norman Mu
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ISBN 9780203960516
0203960513
1281076546
9781281076540