Sentence examples for cloth workers from inspiring English sources

In 1378 a proletarian rebellion of the cloth workers, the Revolt of the Ciompi, was put down by an alliance of merchants, manufacturers, and artisans.

In 1786, the cloth workers of Leeds, a wool-industry center in northern England, issued a protest against the growing use of "scribbling" machines, which were taking over a task formerly performed by skilled labor.

He fomented discontent among the Flemish cloth workers and then treated with the towns; in so doing he negated the count's fidelity to France; he also purchased the fidelity and service of many princes in the Rhineland and Low Countries.

Setting aside Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter Scott as national novelists, Shirley is the first regional novel in English, full of shrewdly depicted local material Yorkshire characters, church and chapel, the cloth workers and machine breakers of her father's early manhood, and a sturdy but rather embittered feminism.

By the 1831 census, 258 people were recorded as cloth workers in Wellington.

Jones was the son of a cloth worker also called Inigo.

One of the casualties, Oldham cloth-worker and ex-soldier John Lees, who died from his wounds on 9 September, had been present at the Battle of Waterloo.

But nurses are too cranky". On a recent evening, Lark stepped gingerly over paint-spattered drop cloths as workers busily replastered ceilings and tore out walls.

Fraught-looking women and cloth-capped workers break into a run as they head across the broad square, down misty streets and into the bowels of the earth.

Writing in the Times last week, he sneered at old black and white images of cloth-capped workers educating themselves for free.

To give his new venture a physical presence, he rented a storefront on Main Street, across from the P.C.N. & R. offices, and covered the front of the place with drop cloths while workers painted signs declaring the existence of a new enterprise in town — Philipstown.info.info