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Border mills : lives of Peeblesshire textile workers

MacDougall, Ian, 1933-20202023
Books, Manuscripts
Exploring the rich material contained within a collection of oral history recordings with Peeblesshire textile mill workers, these testimonies chart a period of immense change across all aspects of textile manufacturing, an industry which was always in a state of flux with innovations in processes and fibres. The recordings encompass the experience of a generation of workers affected by two World Wars - their fathers having been in the First and themselves in the Second. They also reflects on the role of women in the workplace, and community life and how this has changed in correlation to the rise and decline of the textile industry.
Main title:
Border mills : lives of Peeblesshire textile workers / Ian MacDougall ; edited by Caroline Milligan.
Imprint:
Edinburgh : NMSE - Publishing, 2023.
Collation:
416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Published in association with The Scottish Working People's History Trust and the European Ethnological Research Centre.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781910682517 (pbk)
Dewey class:
331.76770092411
LC class:
HD8039.T42
Language:
English
BRN:
3753492
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