No clothier, however great his wealth, could translate his superior capital resources into profitable clothmaking unless he could recruit a large corps of spinners.
Once dyed, the wool was ready to be divided into consignments and distributed by the clothier to 'his' spinners.
Campomanes was not alone in his efforts to convert women into domestic spinners.
The cash income of young women working as cottage spinners must have played a considerable role in the household economy of the region under study.
Using log-linear analysis, the relationships between age, the proportion of households with spinners and the level of indebtedness have been explored.
Embedded within their 'domestic lives and relationship with friends, neighbours and the wider community' spinners developed their own work culture from their particular social world.
In textile manufacture women were first and foremost the spinners.
From 1886 to 1926 mule spinners along with the railway engine drivers did best relative to other workers in their own industries.
