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Cropper Lads
Meanwhile back in north-west England, in the cotton
mills of Lancashire, all was not well. Again, developments
in the technology of weaving were putting many in the
overcrowded mill towns out of work. In their desperation
they turned to violence and formed in gangs to try and halt
the inexorable elimination of their livlihoods by smashing
the new inventions. But nothing could stop the advance of
King Cotton. The industrialists simply brought in the military,
even though Charles Dickens, the most popular novelist of the
day, satirised the stance of these bloated, greedy patriarchs, it
made no difference. Nothing seemed to deflect the headlong
charge of industrial progress.

Track 19
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Doffin Mistress
Doffers put the spools on and off the spinning machines.
They tended to be young girls because of their dexterity
and this song has a child-like feel to it, in it's cheeky favouritism.