spinning-classes

Updated: May 9, 2025

Spinning-classes were also formed; the General Court of Massachusetts ordering these in 1656, this being part of the general effort to begin some form of manufactures. But fishing to load ships, and shipbuilding to carry cured fish absorbed the energies of the growing population; and these vessels brought textiles and manufactured goods from the cheapest markets everywhere and anywhere.

Helen Campbell - Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future