Number

 Weekly Wages

 MALES

 1

 1000 pounds per year

 Mill Manager (Also got 3 per cent of the profits)

 26

 15s-32s

 Overseers and clerks

 6

 17s-25s

 Mechanics and engine drivers

 3

 14s-21s

 Carpenters and blacksmiths

 1

 15s

 Lodgekeeper

 16

 14s-15s

 Power loom machinery attendants and steamers

 18

 10s-15s

 Mill machinery attendants and loom cleaners

 5

 5s-12s

 Spindle cleaners, bobbin stampers and packers, messengers, sweepers

 -

 7s-10s

 Watchmen

 -

 5s-10s

 Coachmen, grooms and van driver

 38

 2s-4s

 Winders

 114

 

 Total Males

 Number

 Weekly Wages

 FEMALES

 4

 10s-11s

 Gauze examiners

 4

 9s-10s

 Female assistant overseers

 16

 7s-10s

 Warpers

 9

 7s-10s

 Twisters

 4

 6s-9s

 Wasters

 589

 5s-8s

 Weavers

 2

 6s-7s

 Plugwinders

 83

 4s-6s

 Drawers and doublers

 188

 2s-4s

 Winders

 899

 

 Total Females

 1013

 

 GRAND TOTAL WORK FORCE

 

[Daily Life of the People in the Industrial Revolution]






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