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The Remaining Branches of Industry
The sweated trades outside the factory acts: stocking weavers, lace-runners, dressmakers and sewing-girls, metal workers of Birmingham and the Black Country, nail- and pin-makers — trade by trade, the wage lists and the commissioners' testimony on children worked from age six.
Stocking weavers and lace-runnersDressmakers and seamstressesBirmingham and Staffordshire metal tradesChild labour in the small tradesWage decline documented from employers' own books