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    332 woman's work in the world's clothing...

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    Begun T Ye By Hem T More The T Now O Mid...

    a the fford new a suitable " _Mule" material having without come into which the they world would just in have time been to

    of little use , or even would probably have never been thought of .

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    _- unrelaxin p t wearil g y grasp inch by of inch iron , mechanism a single une educing ven thread g tireless , , with with the

    in to steam finenes be -sped attempted s and rap per idi ; ty fect the , at in once distaff even hundreds regularity disappeared of , for fil , amen such and t s t , hair pe gen tit -like ion tle

    murmur of the spinning-wheel which had for so many centuries been entirel the and household for ever music . But of was our ances the tors ins , ter was ' s " hushed now tion occupa

    gone ? " y So far from this being the case sp demand rose steadily with loyment supply , in superintending a vastly larger the oj number ) erations of work machines ers found than

    h emp ad ever been occupied in the tedious hand-labour , while their earnings were much increased . In the latter respect there was

    indeed a wonderful improvement , for in 1797 we find that in in the weavin succeedin a g k p rocess of , coarse still p er lo formed th called by K hand endal , women cotton en s gaged could

    earn no g more than four shillings per week , while , female cotton spinners works gained at Manchester from six to and twelve during shillings the period a week from in 1788 the

    the to 1803 amount , the ever price known of labour before , in . tha At t the distric same t rose time to they five t could imes

    a former littl only e ly harmless , obtain but were necessary vani also t enabled in clothing setting to gratif th at em a y much s their elves taste cheap off to and er advantage rate indul than ge

    by eriod prett observe y and s becoming that before outer the garments recent introduction ; for a writer of of cheap that

    p cottonswomen , in the lower ranks often distressed their families that to procure prints , the and expensive muslins finery were worn of " silk by all attire ranks , " wh they ereas could now

    appear But it well was -dressed not onl at y trifling the nature cost . of the occupation , that was

    was thus involved changed . , but When a revolution costly and in cumbrous the whole machinery system of took labour the

    work eng cottager place ine of became was to the sp made ch in an e by ap absolute the and her prime own sim impossibility p fire mover le - wheel side of ; , bobbin but it , and became when and the the less sp necessity indle vast easy s , team home for for -

    workers set accommodating apart attend for the onl mechanism processes y during of working led manufacture to the hours erection , , thus where of introducing large a large buildings staff that of

    332 Woman's Work In The World's Clothing...

    332 woman ' s work in the world ' s clothing .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/44/