The Spitalfields acts
Subtitle: seven pamphlets, 1818-1828.
Series: British labour struggles: contemporary pamphlets; 1727-1850
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Silk industry -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain; Wages -- Textile workers -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Letters, taken from various newspapers, tending to injure the journeymen silk weavers of Spitalfields [first published 1818].; title: An appeal to the public, in defence of the Spitalfields act, by W. Hale [first published 1822].; title: Observations on the ruinous tendency of the Spitalfields act to the silk manufacture of London [first published 1822].; title: Remarks upon Mr. Hale's Appeal to the public, in defence of the Spitalfields act [first published 1822].; title: Review of the statements in Mr. Hale's Appeal to the public on the Spitalfields act [first published 1822].; title: The good and bad effects of high and low wages, by A. Larcher [first published 1823].; title: The petition of the journeymen broad silk weavers of Spitalfields, and its vicinity for a "wages protection bill" [first published 1828]