The handloom weavers in two of the suburbs of Philadelphia started cooperative associations at the same time.
"A History of Trade Unionism in the United States"
Selig Perlman
The roads are black with coal-dust, the brick houses dingy with smoke; and at that time-the time of handloom weavers-every other cottage had a loom at its window, where you might see a pale, sickly-looking man or woman pressing a narrow chest against a board, and doing a sort of treadmill work with legs and arms.
"Scenes of Clerical Life"
George Eliot
As long as Mr. Tryan's hearers were confined to Paddiford Common-which, by the by, was hardly recognizable as a common at all, but was a dismal district where you heard the rattle of the handloom, and breathed the smoke of coal-pits-the 'canting parson' could be treated as a joke.
"Scenes of Clerical Life"
George Eliot