Avoid working in a Victorian mill
By: written by John Malam ; illustrated by David Antram ; created and designed by David Salariya
Contributors: Antram, David, 1958-; Salariya, David
Series: The danger zone
Publisher: Book House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Brighton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781905638482; 9781905638499
Subjects: Occupations; Textile factories; Child labor; Cotton manufacture; Cotton textile industry; Social conditions; Juvenile literature; History
Description: The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cotton! The American connection; title: Out of the workhouse into the mill; title: Manchester! Dirty new town; title: Factory slave! This is your life; title: Cleaning the cotton; title: Carding the cotton and carrying the can; title: Spinning the cotton; title: Weaving yarn into cloth; title: Look out! Dangers of the mill; title: Fire! Trouble at t'mill; title: Hard times! No work, no home; title: Things can only get better.