Cotton Mill Machinery Calculations

Pete Seeger presents a history of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on working people on American Industrial Ballads, a collection of 24 songs (over half of them shorter than two minutes each) sequenced in chronological order by date of composition, to the extent that this can be determined, from the early-1800s appearance of "Peg and Awl," in which a worker struggles to keep up with a machine, to songs written by Woody Guthrie and Les Rice in the 1940s.

Pete Seeger presents a history of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on working people on American Industrial Ballads, a collection of 24 songs (over half of them shorter than two minutes each) sequenced in chronological order by date of composition, to the extent that this can be determined, from the early-1800s appearance of "Peg and Awl," in which a worker struggles to keep up with a machine, to songs written by Woody Guthrie and Les Rice in the 1940s.

A two-part documentary following Tony as he visits the Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire - the inspiration behind Channel 4 drama The Mill - to learn about the experiences of Britain's factory workers who drove the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the looms roar and the air fills with dust (the mill, now run by the National Trust, is fully operational), Robinson is set to work, crawling beneath the machinery to pick up bits of fluffy cotton. This was a job done by children, often as young as seven, who worked 12-hour days.