Overview
Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine records ordinary working-class life during the cotton shortage caused by the American Civil War. Lancashire’s textile economy depended heavily on imported American cotton, so the disruption produced unemployment, poverty, and…
This title is catalogued in Biography & Memoir. Its reading profile is Medium and Moderate, with themes including self development, history, learning, social questions, emotion.
One-Page Summary
Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine records ordinary working-class life during the cotton shortage caused by the American Civil War. Lancashire’s textile economy depended heavily on imported American cotton, so the disruption produced unemployment, poverty, and severe pressure on industrial communities. Edwin Waugh focuses on the people living through those conditions rather than treating the crisis as an abstract economic statistic. Their homes, conversations, habits, worries, and resourcefulness reveal what an economic shock actually feels like from inside a family.
The result is an intimate piece of social history: a record of industrial Britain seen at household scale.
Key Themes
Self development: This title is tagged with self development as one of its main themes.
History: This title is tagged with history as one of its main themes.
Learning: This title is tagged with learning as one of its main themes.
Social questions: This title is tagged with social questions as one of its main themes.
Emotion: This title is tagged with emotion as one of its main themes.