The Scottish Lace and Textile Workers' Union was a trade union representing textile workers in Scotland. The union was founded in 1890 as the Newmilns...

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Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives Scottish Lace and Textile Workers' Union Screw, Nut, Bolt and Rivet Trade union Society of Shuttlemakers Tobacco Mechanics'...

The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of textiles: yarn, cloth and clothing. Cotton is the world's...

Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, and different types of fabric. At...

Canadians and Scottish Americans as the five million remaining in Scotland. By the start of the eighteenth century, a political union between Scotland and England...

craft workers their jobs. The Luddite movement started first with lace and hosiery workers near Nottingham, and spread to other areas of the textile industry...

Joseph L. White, The Limits of Trade Union Militancy: The Lancashire Textile Workers, 1910–1914 (1978). Andrew Miles and Mike Savage, The remaking of the...

to secure harmonious and cheerful co-operation". The lace manufacturers of Nottingham told the 1875 Royal Commission that workers in the industry fell...

the 5th century BC. Scotland, then a rather remote and un-industrialized region, retained manual methods into the 1700s. In Scottish Gaelic tradition, this...

cultivation and herding songs. Gioia also highlighted the industrial or proto-industrial songs of cloth workers (see Waulking song), factory workers, seamen...

1970, and then all the other minor unions in the industry. The long-established Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers and Textile Workers also joined...

is now known as Mechlin lace did not develop until the first half of the eighteenth century and lace with Mechlin patterns and Lille ground did not appear...

he found the standard of living of unskilled workers was about the same in the two cities. Skilled workers in Pittsburgh had about 50% to 100% higher standard...

Act) limited the work week in textile mills (and other textile industries except lace and silk production) for women and children under 18 years of age...

at the Women's Institute and participated in programmes to alleviate local economic hardship. In her book Embroidered and Laced Leatherwork Macbeth lamented...

Distributive and Allied Workers remain TUC members. Of the former members of this section, the Educational Institute of Scotland, Fire Brigades Union, Hospital...

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials...

in textile factories. Bleaching and dyeing works were included by the acts of 1860 and 1862;[which?] lace factories by that of 1861; calendering and finishing...

for workers, oversee working conditions, and limit working hours. At first this applied to a very limited number of industries like lace-making and finishing...

Elizabeth (1887–1921), and John (1889–1976), and one younger brother, William (1897–1976). His father was one of many workers at lace manufacturers Johnston...

traditionally made from lightweight fabrics such as brocade, cotton, gauze, lace, or voile and sometimes adorned with embroidery. The front is secured with either...

made lace on a frame in their home and was regarded as adept at this work but, nonetheless, she too was poorly paid and after rent for housing and for...

quotas, and a variety of other government regulations. Proponents argue that protectionist policies shield the producers, businesses, and workers of the...

problems in many workers. These workers often receive little compensation, and are mostly poor migrants, often Nicaraguan. Workers' wages also decrease...

left surviving workers in great demand in the agricultural economy. Landowners had to face the choice of raising wages to compete for workers or letting their...

bell-like sleeves, and black lace frothing. Starting from that, the priority of cheongsam moved from a political expression to an aesthetic and ornamental emphasis...

1929/1930), American aid worker Mary Macmaster (born 1955), Scottish harpist and singer Mary MacPherson (1821–1898), Scottish Gaelic poet Mary Macpherson...

American author and educator María Josefa Sancho de Guerra (1842–1912), Spanish Roman Catholic nun Maria Sandel (1870–1927), Swedish textile worker, writer,...

worn by some factory workers, leading to the textiles firm Courtaulds instructing female employees in 1860 to leave their hoops and crinolines at home....