Iron is made in Staffordshire, Cleveland, South Wales, and Scotland; copper is smelted in South Wales; crockery is baked in the Potteries; hosiery is manufactured in Nottingham and Leicester; linens are sewed in the North of Ireland; and so on.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
He attributes to piecework, especially in its operation on women and children, the degeneration of the labouring class in the Potteries, which is shown in the Report of the Commission on the Employment of Children.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
On the 14th they held a meeting in the Potteries, in a cottage belonging to one of the few Friends in the place.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley