About: Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:TradeUnion, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FBolton_and_District_Weavers%27%2C_Winders%27_and_Warpers%27_Association

The Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association was a trade union representing cotton mill workers in the Bolton area of Lancashire in England. The union was the first in the Lancashire cotton industry to appoint a woman as its full-time leader. In 1982, the union merged with the Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers, the North Lancashire and Cumbria Textile Workers' Association and the Wigan, Chorley and Skelmersdale District of the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union, forming the North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association (en)
rdfs:comment
  • The Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association was a trade union representing cotton mill workers in the Bolton area of Lancashire in England. The union was the first in the Lancashire cotton industry to appoint a woman as its full-time leader. In 1982, the union merged with the Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers, the North Lancashire and Cumbria Textile Workers' Association and the Wigan, Chorley and Skelmersdale District of the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union, forming the North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union. (en)
foaf:name
  • Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association (en)
  • Bolton Weavers' Association (en)
name
  • Bolton Weavers' Association (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dissolved
founded
full name
  • Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association (en)
headquarters
location country
members
has abstract
  • The Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association was a trade union representing cotton mill workers in the Bolton area of Lancashire in England. The union was the first in the Lancashire cotton industry to appoint a woman as its full-time leader. The union was founded in 1865 as the Excelsior Friendly Society of Toilet and Marseilles Quilt Weavers by Power, with the aim of regulating who was able to start working in the industry. In 1878, it became the Bolton Power Loom Weavers' Association. In 1902 it became the "Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association", and eventually it became the Bolton and District Weavers', Winders', Warpers' and Loom-Sweepers' Association. In 1884, the union was a founder member of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, but it left in 1885, and did not rejoin until 1892. In 1888, it was able to appoint its first full-time general secretary, William Melling, who was succeeded by Cephas Speak. Alice Foley began doing the job of assistant secretary in 1917, but was refused the job title, instead becoming "woman officer". She eventually succeeded Speak in 1948, becoming the first woman to become the full-time secretary of a cotton industry trade union. Foley was, in turn, succeeded by another prominent woman, Hilda Unsworth. In 1982, the union merged with the Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers, the North Lancashire and Cumbria Textile Workers' Association and the Wigan, Chorley and Skelmersdale District of the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union, forming the North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union. (en)
merged
  • North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union (en)
parent organization
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is Wikipage redirect of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 46 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software