An edition of You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (2007)

Avoid working in a Victorian mill

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An edition of You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (2007)

Avoid working in a Victorian mill

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The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?

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Language
English
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32

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Subjects
Textile workers, Cotton manufacture, Social conditions, History, Juvenile literature, Great britain, history, Great britain, history, juvenile literature, Occupations, Textile factories, Child labor, Cotton textile industry
Places
Great Britain, England, Manchester, Manchester (England)
Times
19th century

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Cover of: You Wouldn't Want to Work in a Victorian Mill! (You Wouldn't Want to Be)
You Wouldn't Want to Work in a Victorian Mill! (You Wouldn't Want to Be)
Mar 10, 2016, Book House
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Cover of: You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (You Wouldn't Want to)
September 2007, Franklin Watts
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Avoid working in a Victorian mill
2007, Book House
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Cover of: You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (You Wouldn't Want to...)
September 2007, Franklin Watts
Paperback in English
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Cotton! The American connection
Out of the workhouse into the mill
Manchester! Dirty new town
Factory slave! This is your life
Cleaning the cotton
Carding the cotton and carrying the can
Spinning the cotton
Weaving yarn into cloth
Look out! Dangers of the mill
Fire! Trouble at t'mill
Hard times! No work, no home
Things can only get better.

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Includes index.

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Brighton
Series
The danger zone

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Dewey Decimal Class
338.47677210942733

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Pagination
32 pages
Number of pages
32

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OL28422701M
Internet Archive
avoidworkinginvi0000mala
ISBN 10
1905638485, 1905638493
ISBN 13
9781905638482, 9781905638499
OCLC/WorldCat
124984226

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