Spitalfield Riots - East End of London

The Spitalfield Riots occurred in 1769, during a downturn in the silk weaving industry, centred on Spitalfields in the East End of London. The weavers organised to attempt to ensure that the rates of pay paid for their piece work was not cut beneath the level at which they could feed themselves, and their families. Spitalfields had been a centre of the silk-weaving industry since the early seventeenth century. Towards the end of the century, at the time when the Huguenots arrived from France, large numbers of Huguenot silk-weavers settled in the district. During the 1760s, there were still many weavers in Spitalfields whose French surnames showed their Huguenot descent. Irish weavers came slightly later, but by the middle of the 1730s there were many people from Ireland, or of Irish origins, working in the Spitalfields silk industry.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Erwin Dee Kord (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.02.2012
• EAN: 9786137822210
• ISBN: 9786137822210
• Seiten: 96
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte