Geschichte des Zentralverbandes der Stickerei-Industrie der Ostschweiz und des Vorarlbergs und ihre wirthschafts- und sozialpolitischen Ergebnisse

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Identifikator:: 833814885

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28477

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Baumberger, Georg http://d-nb.info/gnd/119200082

Title:: Geschichte des Zentralverbandes der Stickerei-Industrie der Ostschweiz und des Vorarlbergs und ihre wirthschafts- und sozialpolitischen Ergebnisse

Place of publication:: St. Gallen

Publisher:: Hasselbrink

Year of publication:: 1891

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Collection:: Economics Books

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THE SHEARMEN AND THE FRAMEWORK KNITTERS 665 as “cut-up work,” was beginning to come into the market A.D. 1776 ly . —1850. at this time®; and seven years later the disastrous effect on the regular manufacturers of flooding the market with inferior qualities was fully apparent in the neighbouring districts of Leicestershire?, which seems to have enjoyed considerable prosperity even at the time of the Luddite riots Parliament had no success either in putting down which the low-class work, or regulating the abuse of frame-rents, pelle the or dealing with the owners of independent frames®. Bad as the state of affairs had been in 1811, at the time when Byron made his celebrated speech in the House of Lords®, a e d x y »f C8 0 Vy 8 a ax former Report, that the Workmen suffer considerable inconveniences and are liable to deductions in various ways, in the payment for their work ; but they have found it very difficult to suggest measures that can meet or obviate all those abuses, being of opinion that legislative enactments alone will not have thgt effect, and that trade of every kind should be left as much as possible to find its own level.” They propose the “removal from the Bill of certain Clauses relative to the Hosiery business and also to recommend the enactment of certain Regulations for the Lace Trade which they confidently hope will tend to remove much dissatis. faction between Masters and Workmen in that Trade, and to encourage the mors general use of that article by ensuring its more serviceable and perfect quality.” * * They consider it (the Bill) in some degree as a Bill of experiment and therefore recommend it to be passed only for a limited time.” Second Report of the Oommittee upon the Petitions of the Framework Knitters, 1812, m. 268. 1 The cut-work was made in one large piece and afterwards cut out to the shape of the leg, the seams by which they are joined being often very ill done. This was much cheaper and depressed the regular woven trade. “The hosiers who lo not make the cut-up work are continually lowering the wages to nweet them in the market. ®* * * It has caused men’s ribbed hose, which were in 1814 and 1815 at 12s. a dozen when they were wrought with a selvage...to be reduced so that they are now brought into the market at 5s. a dozen making.” Reports, 1819, v. 416. Cut-work ‘ has a tendency to increase the quantity of stockings in the market and by that means it always keeps the market overstocked with goods, thereby obliging the manufacturers to dismiss a large quantity of hands” (ib. 417). The men had to work extra hours and so there was an increased quantity. 2 Report of the Committee upon the Petitions of the Framework Knitters, 1812, m. 207. 8 “The direct effect of the cut-up work is to throw an additional quantity of goods into an already overstocked market which effects a reduction of price in all the articles, not of the cui-up articles only, but also of the better fabric. In the home market it has had the effect of inducing a substitute to be adopted in many families who have been in the habit of wearing our worsted articles.” The foreigners have either purchased through the medium of their agents, or in many >ases have come personally into the market to sell out their own articles.” Reports, 1819, v. 430, printed pagination 30. $ Report of the Select Committee on the Framework Knitters’ Petition (1819), vy. 407. 8 Report of the Commission appointed to inguire into the Condition of the Frame- Work Knitters, in Reports, 1845, xv. 68, 8 Parl. Debates, XXI1. 966.

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