mule-spinners

Updated: June 29, 2025

A pity that the English working-men will not let themselves be pacified so easily with thy fable as the Roman Plebs, thou modern Menenius Agrippa! Finally, he relates the following: At one time the coarse mule-spinners had misused their power beyond all endurance.

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