doubling-rooms

Updated: May 29, 2025

This is the case to a less degree in the doubling-rooms of the cotton mills, and the result is a constant succession of colds and affections of the chest. A hoarse, rough voice is common to all operatives, but especially to wet spinners and doublers.

Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892