An edition of You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have
(2007)
Avoid working in a Victorian mill
by John Malam
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The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?
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Textile workers, Cotton manufacture, Social conditions, History, Juvenile literature, Great britain, history, Great britain, history, juvenile literature, Occupations, Textile factories, Child labor, Cotton textile industryPlaces
Great Britain, England, Manchester, Manchester (England)Times
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You Wouldn't Want to Work in a Victorian Mill! (You Wouldn't Want to Be)
Mar 10, 2016, Book House
1910706442 9781910706442
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (You Wouldn't Want to)
September 2007, Franklin Watts
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in English
0531187470 9780531187470
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (You Wouldn't Want to...)
September 2007, Franklin Watts
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in English
053113928X 9780531139288
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Cotton! The American connection
Out of the workhouse into the mill
Manchester! Dirty new town
Factory slave! This is your life
Cleaning the cotton
Carding the cotton and carrying the can
Spinning the cotton
Weaving yarn into cloth
Look out! Dangers of the mill
Fire! Trouble at t'mill
Hard times! No work, no home
Things can only get better.
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Includes index.
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