Contents: Preface; Introduction: The rise and fall of King Cotton; Lancashire cotton operatives: trade union organisation 1900-1914; Family, factory and leisure in Lancashire; Lancashire cotton operatives in depression 1914-1939; Cotton trade unions and politics; Health and safety in the cotton industry, with Lesley Fowler; Lancashire cotton operatives in war, austerity and decline; References and bibliography; Index.
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