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membership amongst mule spinners to restrict the supply of labour to employers, ensuring that their members were able to receive wages and working conditions significantly better than most
British industrial employees. This elevated position within the industrial working class led to mule spinners being known as the
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became the
General Secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. Shortly after his appointment he led the operatives in south east Lancashire in a strike against a 20% reduction in wages, securing 5% of this back in early 1880. In 1885 south east Lancashire employers sought a
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The
Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners had a federal structure with strong central leadership where control was in the hands of a small group of paid officials. While many of its affiliates were small unions, based in a single town, others were organised in five provinces, each
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The new union grew rapidly and by the late 1880s approximately 90 percent of cotton spinners were members. The union had 18,000 members at the turn of the century. By 1910 almost 100% of male mule spinners were members and its membership numbered 22000. The
Amalgamation used the high level of union
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as improvements in technology allowed it to process finer grades of cotton. The size of the
British textile industry also declined dramatically during this period due to a decline in demand and competition from foreign industry. This process was accelerated dramatically by the
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the decision was made to dissolve the union in 1970. The
Amalgamation continued to function for several years, disbursing funds to former members and winding up the union's affairs, before it was finally deregistered in 1977.
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The Barefoot Aristocrats: A History of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners
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10% reduction in wages. Again compromise was reached and a 5% reduction imposed.
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Grand General Union of Operative Spinners of the United Kingdom
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Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners Archive
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of which covered a wide area and had numerous branches: the
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The textile and clothing industries of the United Kingdom
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Preston Provincial Operative Cotton Spinners' Association
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Oldham Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association
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Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Society
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Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners
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1665:1970 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
890:B. Hick and Sons / Hick, Hargreaves & Co
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1400:Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation
275:All names from Alan Fowler and Terry Wyke,
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460:Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907
1365:Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union
910:William Roberts & Co of Nelson
291:1848: Thomas Mawdsley (Manchester)
264:Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union
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1385:General Union of Loom Overlookers
690:. Littleborough: George Kelsall.
426:1878: William Radcliffe (Mossley)
355:1876: William Radcliffe (Mossley)
1650:Trade unions established in 1870
1370:Amalgamated Weavers' Association
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407:1966: Joseph Richardson (Bolton)
342:1967: Joseph Richardson (Bolton)
294:1875: William Heginbotham (Hyde)
800:Sidney Stott (later Sir Philip)
429:1883: Samuel Jones (Manchester)
420:1849: William Fair (Manchester)
410:1967: Frederick Mayall (Oldham)
216:Amalgamated Weavers Association
1228:Amalgamated Cotton Mills Trust
304:1902: William Howarth (Bolton)
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1203:Lancashire Cotton Corporation
1177:Thomas Whitehead and Brothers
880:W & J Galloway & Sons
591:Lancashire Faces & Places
432:1893: James Robinson (Bolton)
288:1846: Thomas Brindle (Bolton)
190:was formed in 1870. In 1878,
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981:John Hetherington & Sons
865:Clayton, Goodfellow & Co
435:1896: Thomas Dawson (Oldham)
966:Butterworth & Dickinson
684:Fowler, Alan; Wyke (1987).
542:Fowler, Alan; Wyke, Terry.
218:which had 114,000 members.
18:Spinners' Amalgamation
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1635:Cotton industry in England
1198:Fine Spinners and Doublers
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619:Greenwood Publishing Group
423:1876: William Leigh (Hyde)
352:1858: William Leigh (Hyde)
1609:John Kay (spinning frame)
1604:John Kay (flying shuttle)
1249:Cotton-spinning machinery
1021:Parr, Curtis & Madely
971:Curtis, Parr & Walton
850:Browett, Lindley & Co
611:White, Joseph L. (1978).
164:Manchester Spinners Union
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1026:British Northrop Loom Co
945:Woolstenhulmes & Rye
895:John Musgrave & Sons
775:Bradshaw Gass & Hope
650:University of Manchester
642:Briscoe, Lynden (1971).
544:The Barefoot Aristocrats
277:The Barefoot Aristocrats
257:Cotton Industry Act 1959
148:in the cotton industry.
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1223:James Burton & Sons
1213:Combined Egyptian Mills
1051:Tweedales & Smalley
1259:Magnetic ring spinning
1254:DREF friction spinning
935:Willans & Robinson
840:Bateman & Sherratt
1436:Mule spinners' cancer
1405:The Textile Institute
1375:Cardroom Amalgamation
1244:Textile manufacturing
1056:T. Wildman & Sons
1041:Taylor, Lang & Co
1001:Howard & Bullough
991:John Pilling and Sons
925:Urmson & Thompson
835:Ashworth & Parker
597:(5): 71–72. May 1901.
589:"Mr James Mawdsley".
569:The National Archives
478:Fowler, Alan (2003).
1419:Employment practices
1237:Industrial processes
855:Buckley & Taylor
780:F.W. Dixon & Son
716:John Rylands Library
201:Barefoot Aristocrats
1431:Kissing the shuttle
1208:Bagley & Wright
1147:George Augustus Lee
1137:William Houldsworth
1107:Nathaniel Eckersley
976:Dobson & Barlow
920:Scott & Hodgson
885:Benjamin Goodfellow
870:Earnshaw & Holt
397:(Ashton-under-Lyne)
369:(Ashton-under-Lyne)
332:(Ashton-under-Lyne)
311:(Ashton-under-Lyne)
283:General Secretaries
108:(General Secretary)
64:115 Newton Street,
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1031:Pemberton & Co
1016:Mather & Platt
996:Harling & Todd
961:Brooks & Doxey
905:Petrie of Rochdale
900:J & W McNaught
845:Boulton & Watt
706:External Resources
565:Access to Archives
486:Ashgate Publishing
440:Position abolished
395:James W. Whitworth
330:James W. Whitworth
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1558:Weavers' Triangle
1553:Queen Street Mill
1334:Lancashire boiler
1264:Open-end spinning
1186:Limited companies
1152:Charles Macintosh
1092:Joseph Brotherton
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