Norfolk

Handloom Weavers in Mid Nineteenth Century Norwich

Poverty and persistence among Norwich's handloom weavers.

Examines Norwich's declining handloom weaving industry in the mid nineteenth century—employment, earnings, poverty, and pauperism—alongside vivid reports of weavers' cramped living conditions. Three workhouse inmates' life stories illustrate how far the trade had fallen from its eighteenth-century prosperity.

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