cotton worker

He became a cotton worker at the age of nine.

Like cotton workers in the American south, they were given blankets, rations, and clothes instead of money.

Overall, the study found, cotton workers' lung function improved after retirement, particularly within the first 10 years.

Their principal customers were the cotton workers of Manchester, then a burgeoning mill town.

The community began as a segregated town for African American cotton workers during the great migration period from 1930-1950.

"Partially," they note, because, on average, cotton workers' lung function did not reach that of silk workers after retirement.

When Woodruff left school in 1930, his family and half the cotton workers of Blackburn were unemployed.

In spite of limited education he had a flair for mathematics and was skilled at working out the complicated the way cotton workers were paid.

Relief funds were set up in the northern states of America to support the UK cotton workers.

This is the cotton workers' equivalent of Repetitive Stress Syndrome.

They also forwarded £800 to the unemployed cotton workers to work worsted instead of cotton.

They dominated over the Tonga cotton workers and the rewards of trading with the Muslims went to them.

Shi's team also found that cotton workers who smoked suffered greater effects on lung function than non-smokers during their working years.

Manchester seized the chance to acquire the rejected statue and mark the sacrifice Lancashire cotton workers had made in the civil war.

The resulting damp conditions caused health risks and considerable discomfort to cotton workers, especially in sheds with poor ventilation.

A five-day-old strike of 200,000 Lancashire cotton workers ended after the strikers agreed to a wage cut.

These lung function changes are comparable to the effects caused by other occupational risk factors, such as organic dusts in farming and cotton workers.

The Times cited one publication's call for unionization: "Negroes must form cotton workers' unions."

Textile workers, and particularly cotton workers, in the industrial north of England, and Scotland were worst affected.

The proportion of cotton workers reporting bouts of breathlessness increased over time -- from 15 percent to 20 percent.

At the start of the study in 1981, 21.5 percent of cotton workers had chronic bronchitis, and a similar percentage had chronic cough.

Well, my dear, I dare say that I shall be somewhat lonely in Boston without you,' he said, his mind on the striking cotton workers.

In 1842, a general strike involving cotton workers and colliers was organised through the Chartist movement which stopped production across Great Britain.

On 19 January 1863, Abraham Lincoln sent an address thanking the cotton workers of Lancashire for their support.

Fleischman, Richard K. Conditions of life among the cotton workers of southeastern Lancashire, 1780-1850.