History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)
Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 287
Though the whole number of hand-loomweavers has probably rather increased than diminishedof late years, from the training up of children to the occu-pation of their fathers, as well as from the influx of newhands to an employment so easily learnt, yet thereare not a few places in Lancashire and… … THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 239 weaving of silk, as at Leigh, Middleton, kc.; or havefound employment in the power-loom and spinningfactories, as at Stayley-bridge, Hyde, Oldham, Bury,Macclesfield, &c.; and it is earnestly to be desired thatthe whole number should be thus transferred to…
Cotton manufacture
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