The Handloom Weavers: a Study in the English Cotton Industry during the Industrial Revolution. by BYTHELL, Duncan:

New York: Pantheon Books, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xiii, 395 (2) pp, acknowledgments, Part I. The Setting; Part II. First Generation; Part III. The Corporation; Part IV. The World at Work; Part V. Families; Part VI. Strike and Shutdown; Part VII. Child of the Shutown; Part VIII. Eulogy; glossary, photograph credits with b&w illustrations and a tipped-in review on front pastedown. First Edition, 1978. "This book focuses on the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, once the largest textile factory in the world, and moves through layer after layer of mill life, from the elegant world of Boston-based executives to the cramped quarters of the families of bosses and workers; shared experiences and ethnic rivalries, of company loyalty and bitter strikes in industrializing America." from the jacket flap. Price Clipped. Inked name on ffep. Minor wear to top and bottom edge dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. 'No other group of workers in the history of the English working-class has received more sympathy and less scholarly attention than the handloom weavers of the Lancashire cotton industry during the Industrial Revolution.' Mr Bythell's is a detailed study of this important group.