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Title:
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Factory Workers in Cotton Factories around Manchester, 1818-1819
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Description:
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This dataset provides name, age, sex, years of experience, and sick days for 8225 persons (some fields incomplete for some records) working in 21 cotton factories near Manchester, as well as in two factories in York. Rosters for each factory are printed in the House of Lords Papers, vol. 96 (1818) and vol. 110 (1819). Factory inspectors compiled the rosters in April, 1818, except for the rosters for the Stockport factories, which were compiled in March 1819.
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Data
Format:
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csv
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Subject:
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T (Labor and
Employment History)
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Geographic Area:
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4 (Europe - England)
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Time
Period:
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7 (19th Century)
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Publications:
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Publications Used: Galbi, Douglas, "Child labor and the division of labor in the early English cotton mills," Journal of Population Economics, vol. 10, No. 4 (1997) pp. 357-75. Galbi, Douglas, "Through Eyes in the Storm: Aspects of the Personal History of Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution," Social History vol. 21, no. 2 (1996) pp. 142-59. Galbi, Douglas, "Economic Change and Sex Discrimination in the Early English Cotton Factories," working paper, at http://www.galbithink.org/womwork.htm |
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URL
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http://www.galbithink.org/names/manfacdd.htm |
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Contact:
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Douglas Galbi
1307 N. Ode St., Apt. 435 Arlington, VA 22209 USA Phone: 1-703-528-7197 E-mail: purplemotes at purplemotes.net |
