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Tackler, 168 . See also Overlookers

Tagelohn ("day wages"), 297

Tagelöhner ("day laborer"), 297 -98

Tardiness:

fines for, 107 , 112 , 115 -18, 121 ;

locking out for, 105 -21

Technical professionals (technischer Angestellte ), 170

Technischer Angestellte (technical professionals), 170

Der Textil-Arbeiter (journal), 417 -18

Textil-Arbeiter (newspaper), 179 -86, 193

Textile Manufacturer (journal), 493

Textile Mercury (journal), 392

Textile mills:

British vs. German, 6 -13, 128 -43, 477 -79;

dressing rituals of, 126 -28;

efficiency ratio used in, 95 -105;

entry/exit controls at, 105 -21;

evolution of factory system of, 66 -73;

fining system within, 74 -78;

"gate" symbolism of, 122 -25;

German vs. British shop-floor activity in, 2 -4;

hierarchy within, 149 ;

hiring systems of, 171 -74;

labor as commodity within, 43 ;

piece-rate scales within, 43 -66;

publications on, 174 -75;

Saddleworth woolen industry scales, 54 n29;

subcontracting practice in, 158 -59;

technical advances of, 4 -7;

wage assessments within, 234 -35.

See also British mills; German mills

Theories of Surplus Value (Marx), 215

"The Theory and Practice of Piece-work" (Wood), 54

The Theory of Communicative Action (Habermas), 33

"Theory of the firm," 90

Thompson, E. P., 16 -18, 34 -35, 351 -52, 386 -91, 399 , 480

Thompson, Noel W., 399

Thompson, William, 394 -96, 399 -400

Thun, Alphons, 67

Time issues:

of British vs. German weavers, 354 -62;

piece-rate earnings and, 352 -54;

strike demands and, 362 -82;

"waiting time," 363 -72

"Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism" (Thompson), 351

A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (Petty), 218 , 222

Tryon, T., 231

Tucker, Dean, 233

Tuners:

described, 167 -68;

fare-


567

well gifts for, 188 -89;

"greasy," 187 ;

strikes supported by, 462 .

See also Overlookers

Turner, Ben, 404

Two-loom system, 357 n14, 458


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