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Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine

CHAPTER XIII
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The work is not remunerative, nor is it expected to be so; but the benefit which may grow out of the teaching which these young women get here--and the evil their employment here may prevent, cannot be calculated.

I find that such workrooms are established in some of the other towns now suffering from the depression of trade.

Some of these I intend to visit hereafter.

I spent an interesting half-hour with the secretary, after which I went to see the factory operatives at work upon Preston Moor.
Preston Moor is a tract of waste land on the western edge of the town.

It belongs to the corporation.


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