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Huddersfield Exposed

@huddersfield.exposed

I came across a particularly grim local accident involving a mill flywheel and a chap who got caught in it. The millworkers spent the afternoon picking up pieces of him, which were put in a wooden box and sent to the family. Workers reportedly kept find more small bits of him for weeks afterwards 😬

November 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM

Ravi Parmar

@rparmarbc.bsky.social

With local Unifor members.

Your Westshore bus drivers are Unifor. Your Port Alberni millworkers are Unifor.

Unifor locals help our communities run.

We’re going to keep standing up for them.

Thank you for dropping by the office to share your support.

#BCNDP #Unifor

October 20, 2026 at 5:16 PM

Peter Foden

@ysgrifnlaw.bsky.social

Some historians see the altruism of the Lancashire millworkers during the American Civil War as a key stepping stone towards gaining their own Civil Rights - elementary education (1870) and the working man’s vote (1867)

October 19, 2026 at 6:24 AM

History and Heritage Yorkshire

@handhyorkshire.bsky.social

thousands of mill workers faced unemployment and severe poverty. Local authorities organised relief schemes and public works, with improvements to roads around Rooley Moor forming part of this wider response. Unemployed workers laid roughly 330,000 hand-hewn stone setts along a 1,950-yard

Memorial plaque on the Cotton Famine Road at Rooley Moor near Rochdale. It is dedicated to the Rochdale cotton millworkers who supported the anti-slavery cause and endured severe hardship during the American Civil War (1861–1865)

October 19, 2026 at 4:38 AM

Darren Smith Photography

@darrensmith.org.uk

The regular #symmetry/#patterned #windowsof an old #millin #Styal #Cheshirewhere #millworkersfrom the past made #cloth,part of the #cotton #industrial #revolutionof #Northwest #England.#photographyby #darrensmithphotography,a #localbusiness #photographer #photographicart

Symmetrical rows of mill windows at Styal Mill showing repeating industrial patterns.

October 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Howard Breen He/Him

@howardbreen.bsky.social

The one and only time the word “climate” or “raw log exports” arose under the klieg light lit podium debate was by Emily Lowan despite thousands of homes lost to wildfires and jobs to millworkers -- a foreign only gain in 2026.

October 15, 2026 at 3:14 AM

L. S. Lowry

@lslowry.bsky.social

Millworkers https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/millworkers-1948

"Millworkers" by L.S. Lowry depicts a bustling scene of workers, characterized by his signature style of matchstick figures, against the backdrop of a grimy industrial town. Known for his evocative portrayals of Northern England's working class in the early 20th century, Lowry captures both the movement and monotony of daily labor life.

October 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM

Dr. M.A. Davis

@mikedavis.bsky.social

My grandfather (from similar circumstances, albeit mostly millworkers) was the only one of several siblings to survive to adulthood.

September 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM

britbrif.bsky.social

@britbrif.bsky.social

Andy Burnham's UN Speech Puts Manchester in the Spotlight Four Times

PM Andy Burnham's first UN speech mentioned Manchester four times, referencing millworkers and the north of England as industrial revolution birthplace.

britbrief.co.uk

September 23, 2026 at 2:20 AM

KS_1968

@karenroberts.bsky.social

As a descendent of miners, millworkers and farm labourers I can confirm that yes it panned out.
Also women doing housework has been transformed by hoovers,washing machines, dishwashers, fridges etc.
Getting to work and choice of work was transformed by cars, buses, trains too.

September 21, 2026 at 9:08 AM

Architectural Digest Homepage

@architecturaldigest.com.web.brid.gy

10 “AD”-Approved Millworkers to Perfect Your Next Project’s Built-Ins

Design pros trust these industry favorites add finesse, function, and flexibility to any home interior

www.architecturaldigest.com

September 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM

kit

@kiturnix.bsky.social

that's the scary effigy :) her entire purpose is to scare awake the young preteen child millworkers on their 12 hour shifts

September 12, 2026 at 4:53 PM

Huddersfield Exposed

@huddersfield.exposed

If you're looking for something to do today, Keith Robinson's new @huddersfieldhistory.org.uk book is being launched in Lockwood. Looks like you might need an umbrella if you want to go on the guided walk tho! 🌦️☔🌈 huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/event/herita...
huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/product/the-...

Front cover of "The Millworkers of Lockwood: Two Centuries of Struggle"

September 12, 2026 at 8:47 AM

Local To Ossett

@localtoossett.bsky.social

Join a history walk before the launch of a new book which reveals the tough lives of millworkers in Lockwood #LocalToOssett #westyorkshire

Join a history walk before the launch of a new book which reveals the tough lives of millworkers in Lockwood

Millworkers had tough lives and there's a history walk ahead of the launch of a new book charting the story of two centuries of struggle The post Join a history walk before the launch of a new book which reveals the tough lives of millworkers in Lockwo...

huddersfieldhub.co.uk

September 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM

vivekgani.bsky.social

@vivekgani.bsky.social

Related on early 20th century South Asian sikh millworkers: bsky.app/profile/vive...

vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · Jan 30

Were there any relations between IWW/Scandinavians and asian/south Asian folks (e.g. the Ghadar Party in Astoria) in the early 1900s?

Thinking of equalitylabs.wpengine.com/wp-content/u... (via @rohandavis.bsky.social video youtu.be/7aUUkx8J7d0&... , also partly since Rufo's wife is Thai)

Excerpt from https://equalitylabs.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Caste_in_the_United_States_Report2018.pdf

"*The Dusky Peril*

Most South Asians in the United States arrived much later than other Asian immigrants from East and Southeast Asia. Of the many reasons for this, one of the key reasons was the Hindu taboo of “kala pani” (black water). According to Hindu religious belief, the crossing of oceans, out of the subcontinent, results in an immediate and irrevocable loss of one’s Caste. Therefore, a Caste Hindu who attempts to emigrate to another land via sea could effectively become equal to a Dalit in status. This was unthinkable to many.

The majority of populations from South Asia who then were free to travel without fear of blasphemy
were the Caste-oppressed and
non-Hindus - the Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, and Sikhs. So, the first wave of South Asian immigration that took place between 1897
and 1924 consisted mostly of
Sikh men who were farmers and
ship workers, from the state of
Punjab and who arrived on the West Coast of the United States. A smaller group of South Asian American immigrants included students, spiritual leaders,
and other intellectuals who were mostly Caste-ediverse and interacted with members of the American intelligentsia because of their connections to universities and spiritual movements that were popular at the turn of the century. This included members of the Indian Freedom movement, the Ghadar party, and Indian members of the transcendentalism movement.
At this time, citizenship in the United States was determined
by one’s race. Under the Naturalization Act of 1790, only
immigrants who were free white persons of “good character”
could be citizens. This setup a 100+ year battle between indigenous peoples, brown immigrants, African Americans, and the U.S. government over equitable access to citizenship."

September 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM

HistoryLink.org

@historylink.bsky.social

#OnThisDay in 1907, white workingmen attacked Bellingham's East Indian millworkers. historylink.org/File/8039

September 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM

Joyce Park

@troutgirl.bsky.social

Did you know that at the turn of the 20th century there were hundreds of South Asian millworkers in Washington state? Until a race riot in 1907 forced essentially the entire community to pack up and move to Canada or California. Many such cases in the PNW...

historylink.org/File/8039

historylink.org

September 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM

Neil Snyder 釋常学

@neilsnyder.bsky.social

I read a great history of militant labor activism among the mills in SW Washington called Red Harbor that is quite good. The congressman from the area was responsible for the federal immigration restrictions of the late teens/early twenties. What immigrant millworkers had to put up with was awful.

September 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM