Sentence examples for cottage workers from inspiring English sources

The putting-out system differed from peasant household production in that the merchant clothier, or entrepreneur, bought the raw wool and owned the product through all stages of its preparation (the cottage workers still owned their own spinning wheels, looms, and other tools).

A significant proportion of the female cultivators (agro-pastoralists) and cottage industry workers have joined the force of agricultural labourers.

I head to Kettle and Tin in Paddington, another charming old workers' cottage that has resisted the spit and polish and sparkle of so many Sydney eateries.

Support for Gov. John G. Rowland continues to erode among Connecticut voters and even among the governor's fellow Republicans in the wake of his admission last month that he lied about receiving free work on his cottage from state workers, according to a poll released yesterday.

While he was gone, his son, Louis, developed the property, constructing the stone barn, a shed, a workers' cottage and other buildings.

Former mill workers' cottages now sell for a quarter of a million pounds.

Do renovated workers' cottages really symbolise the image of "It's not grim up north"?

Thirty five years ago I bought a row of 350-year-old Welsh half-timbered industrial workers' cottages.

They are pitched-roofed, in straight rows, partly inspired by the railway workers' cottages that Brunel built in Swindon.

The 19th-century houses have been restored and you can stay in one of the old quarry workers' cottages on a residential Welsh language course.

Still, farms will still find it easy to branch out if they want to, as many own workers' cottages emptied by the mechanisation of much farm work.