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Cosy Co-operation under Strain:Industrial Relations in the Yorkshire Woollen Industry 1919-1930
Author:  Christopher Wrigley
Published:  1987
Medium: Book         Publisher:  University of York

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.   pp 33   ISBN 0-903857-30-8

Price:  £4.00





The Skilled Labourer 1760-1832
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Although similar to 'The Village Labourer' this book deals with the history specific groups of workers. Includes: miners of the Tyne and Wear, cotton workers, woollen and worsted workers, Spitalfields silkweavers, frame work knitters and also has sections dealing with Nottinghamshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire Luddites.    

Price:  £15.11





The Village Labourer & The Skilled Labourer
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

1760-1832. Both of these wonderful books (see descriptions above) on one CD.    

Price:  £21.70





Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire
Author:  John Smail
Published:  2001
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Anyone interested in the domestic system of cloth manufacture will find this publication a treasure house of insight. ALBION An important source for historians of the wool textile industries in the eighteenth century... Brearley's idiosyncratic jottings, far rarer as those of a skilled artisan than the more usual observations of a merchant or early factory owner, provide an uncommon chronicle of a key region on the brink of great change...   hardback   ISBN 978-0-902-12288-8

Price:  £50.00
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