Title: The last shift : the decline of handloom weaving in nineteenth-century Lancashire /
Authors: Timmins, Geoffrey.
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Handloom industry England Lancashire History; Lancashire (England) Economic conditions.
Contents: Technological change during British industrialisation -- Sectoral studies of domestic outwork -- The cotton industry and outwork -- 1. The changing balance in weaving technology: an overview -- The rise of the powerloom -- The demise of hand weaving -- 2. The economic importance of hand weaving in the early nineteenth century -- Numbers of handloom weavers -- Geographical variation -- Impact on settlement formation -- 3. The nature of the hand weaving labour force -- The emergence of the specialist weaver -- The change to cotton weaving -- 4. The onset of decline in cotton hand weaving -- The impact of the mid-1830s trade upturn -- Intra-regional variation -- 5. The survival of hand weaving in the mid-Victorian period -- Overall numbers and dependency -- Age/sex distribution -- 6. The means of survival -- Hand weavers and family income -- Type of fabric -- 7. Mid-Victorian hand weavers: reasons for survival -- Historiographical issues -- New perspectives -- App. A1. Computing hand weaver numbers in early nineteenth century Lancashire -- App. A2. Computing hand weaver numbers in mid-Victorian Lancashire -- App. A3. Statistical techniques.