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Secrets of the Dumb Steeple

In: The History of Work

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  • Richard Donkin

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John Booth was dying. The loss of blood from his leg, shattered by a musket ball, had been too great. He was a young man, just nineteen, a harness maker from Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It hadn’t even been his quarrel, but passions were running high, and when volunteers were sought to fight on behalf of the hand shearers John Booth was with them. His father had been a shearer before joining the priesthood and still did the odd shearing job. It was a good job and had been well paid before the machines arrived. Machines did not put food on the Booth family table. The issue was that simple.

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  • Richard Donkin, 2010. "Secrets of the Dumb Steeple," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The History of Work, chapter 0, pages 72-86, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28217-9_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230282179_6
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