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

CHAPTER XVII
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But they had been accustomed to work, and their work had given them a discipline which is not sufficiently valued.

There are people who have written a great deal, and know very little about the influence of factory labour upon health,--it would be worth their while to see some of these workrooms.

I think it would sweep cobwebs away from the corners of their minds.

The clothing made up in these workrooms is of a kind suitable for the wear of working people, and is intended to be given away to the neediest among them, in the coming winter.

I noticed a feature here which escaped me in the room at the Mechanics' Institution.


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