The Barefoot Aristocrats: A History of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton SpinnersAlan Fowler, Terry Wyke |
Contents
Mule Spinner Societies and the early Federations | 14 |
Spinners and Minders | 36 |
The Founding of the Amalgamation | 59 |
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A. E. Musson accepted Amalgamation's amongst Annual Report Association ballot big piecer Blackburn Bolton Province Brooklands Brooklands Agreement campaign cancer Cardroom Amalgamation cent reduction Chartist Cotton Board Cotton Control Board Cotton Factory Cotton Famine cotton operatives cotton spinning cotton towns cotton trade cotton unions December demand dispute employers Executive February Federation firms funds further Government increase industry's James Mawdsley January July Kirby and A. E. Labour Party leaders levies lockout major Manchester Manchester Guardian Mawdsley membership mills Mossley movement mule spinners mule spinning N. J. Smelser negotiations October Oldham Masters Oldham Province Oldham Spinners Operative Cotton Spinners organisation piecers political Preston problems Quarterly Report 31 R. G. Kirby Rochdale Secretary self-actor minders spindles Spinners Minutes spinning industry spinning mule Stalybridge Stockport strike strike action Textile Thomas Ashton trade union unemployment vote wage advance wage cuts wage list wage reduction Weavers week whilst workers yarn