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