Template:Did you know nominations/Steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills
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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:57, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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Steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills
[edit]... that the steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills was the subject of four Acts of Parliament?
Created by Susan Gleave (talk). Nominated by Pigsonthewing (talk) at 21:42, 10 May 2014 (UTC).
Date and length fine. AGF on offline source. Not a self nom. Good to go. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:57, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
This page cites only 2 sources. Are any more available? Yoninah (talk) 14:26, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
- The four Acts are each sources in their own right. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:32, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- It's a bit "random thing", then "random thing"!! Can we better word this to emphasise more, rather than just "four Ats of Parliament", that this was early legislation aimed at employee or workplace health. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:55, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that around 100 years ago, the steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills made workers fear for their health? --Storye book (talk) 11:04, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
New review needed for my copyedit of the article and for ALT1.--Storye book (talk) 11:04, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
- Nice work, Storye book. The article is new enough, long enough, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen in online source. No QPQ necessary for non-self-nomination. But I don't see the ALT1 hook ref in the article. Under Background it says that the workers accepted the high humidity. Are you referring to the quote under Cotton Cloth Factory Act 1889: "a claim by cotton workers that they were being 'stewed alive by Act of Parliament'"? Yoninah (talk) 22:16, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
- The citations for ALT1 are #1, #4, #5 and #6. I understand "background" to be about what happened before the Acts of Parliament were passed. I have clarified it to say that the workers were OK with steaming at first. The background section then goes on to show that the damp effect of steaming made workers ill (citation #1). Then in the 1889 section, it says that the officer of health referred to steaming being associated with "slaughtering of inhabitants" (#4) and that the workers' response was to go on strike for abolition of steaming (#5 and #6). I agree that the "stewed alive" quote (#6) backs that up as well. I hope that helps.--Storye book (talk) 08:56, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
