Rag Trade. The people who made our clothes

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Tells the stories of clothing workers in a series of single-chapter biographies giving insight into 'the trades my [eleven] subjects practised as well as about the lives of working people'. Contains an introductory chapter on 'The nineteenth century rag trade' and biographies of Elizabeth Chaffard, 1821-67, of Edinburgh, dressmaker; Rebecca Thomas, c1830-1902, of Cheltenham, dressmaker; Elizabeth Pattinson, 1862-1935, of Ulverston, dressmaker; Samuel Attwood, 1792-1870, of Basingstoke, tailor; John Evens, 1807-85, of Holberton, Plymouth, tailor; Adolph Kushner, c1868-1947, tailor of London; Joseph Burdett, cb1796, and Joseph Moss, 1798-1881, of Lambley, Nottinghamshire, stockingers; James Edwards, 1823-98, of Brampton Bryan, Hertfordshire, shoemaker; George Odger, 1820-77, of London, shoemaker and trade unionist; 'The Symington family, c1840-1923, of Market Harborough, corset manufacturers; Ida Allen, 1877-1959, of Beer, Devon, lacemaker