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The Metropolis Tailors and the Two Trades
A reporter details the split in London tailors between the “honourable” masters who work on premises and the “dishonourable” show and slop trade using middlement “sweaters.” It notes declining on premise work, rising outdoor work, and falling wages, with 21,000 tailors and 64,600 yearly losses projected in twenty years. It also chronicles Sunday work, Chartist sentiment, laborer conditions, teetotalism views, and the exploitation by contractors like basket-men at docks.
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Artizan
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Shadwell
Trinity Corporation
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