Yet these relationships allowed weavers quite differing degrees of control over what they produced.
Finally, weavers exerted a great deal of leverage in the recruitment process.
Clothiers and weavers experiencing hardship and who successfully obtained legislative favor had large memberships and were of stable trades.
In any case, the relationship between the line jobber and the weavers, in particular, grew increasingly fractious.
Among jute workers only weavers were not employed on every day basis, as their work required much more time to learn than other workers.
The latter were formed around refugee occupation groups such as weavers and shoe makers as well as localities.
During the porfiriato, the mills expected weavers to clean their looms without pay.
The phenomenon of the weavers running away from their looms and villages was, therefore, increasingly becoming a grim reality.
