1. Problems and sources
2. The organization of the industry
3. The labour force
4. The coming of the powerloom
5. Wages: (I) The piece-rate
6. Wages: (II) Earnings and the standard of living
7. Public opinion and the handloom weavers
8. Organized industrial action among the cotton handloom weavers
9. The weavers and radical politics
10. The problem of poverty
11. Displacement and disappearance.

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