Notes
- Morgan Carol Gender Constructions and Gender Relations in Cotton and Chain-making in England: a contested and varied terrain Women's History Review 1997 6 367 389
- Blackburn Sheila Employers and Social Policy: Black Country chainmasters, the minimum wage campaign and the Cradley Heath strike of 1910 Midland History 1987 12 85 102 Blackburn Sheila Working-class Attitudes to Social Reform: Black Country chain-makers and anti-sweating legislation, 1880–1930 International Review of Social History 1988 33 42 69
- Blackburn, ‘Working-class Attitudes’
- Ibid., p. 52
- See County Advertiser January–March 1883
- Female Labour in the District County Advertiser 24 February 1883 Female Labour in the District County Advertiser 6 January 1883
- Female Labour in the Chain Trade.-deputation to Mr. Sheridan H. B. County Advertiser 17 February 1883
- Female Labour in the Nail and Chain Trades. Great meeting at Old Hill County Advertiser 17 March 1883
- Blackburn ‘Working-class Attitudes’ 60
- Ibid., p. 53
- Taylor Eric The Midland Counties Trades Federation, 1886–1914 Midland History 1 27 33 Blackburn notes the affiliation of Cradley Heath chain-makers with the MCTF. Blackburn, ‘Working-class Attitudes’, p. 54
- Letter to editor, Sunday Chronicle 5 December 1886
- Morgan ‘Gender constructions’ 376 377
- Berg Maxine The Age of Manufactures: industry, innovation and work in Britain 1700–1820 Barnes & Noble Totowa, NJ 1985 159 160
- Berg states that domestic industry was founded upon ‘a plebeian culture based on community ties between families and neighbours, not on the ties established between workers in a journeymen's association’. Ibid.
- Blackburn ‘Working-class Attitudes’ 62 63
- Female Labour in the Black Country Birmingham Daily Post 2 April 1891
- See Morgan ‘Gender Constructions’ 377
- Birmingham Daily Post 20 April 1891
- Blackburn ‘Working-class Attitudes’ 60
- Birmingham Daily Post 20 April 1891
- Trades Union Congress, Parliamentary Committee Report, 1888, p. 4; Midland Counties Trades Federation, Labour Tribune, 4 August 1888. Blackburn notes Juggins' support for this position. ‘Working-class Attitudes’, p. 54
- Trades Union Congress Report 1888 48
- For the changing perspective within the Women's Trade Union League, see Feurer Rosemary The Meaning of ‘Sisterhood’: the British women's movement and protective labor legislation, 1870–1900 Victorian Studies 1988 31 233 260
- Lady Dilke at Heath Cradley County Advertiser 19 October 1889
- James Smith of the Cradley Heath Chain-makers noted the ‘great difficulty’ in organising women workers and the problem of ‘wring[ing] contributions from the women’. Mass meeting of chain-makers at Heath Cradley County Advertiser 23 October 1897
- Ibid.
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