The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Lancashire Textile workers. 'The Carder's business is to see that machinery is kept in perfect working order...The Jack Tenter is a girl whose duty consists in taking charge of the roving frames...The business of the Hand-mule Spinner is to take the cotton rovings from the Carder and Jack Tenter, and make a thread so fine as scarcely to be seen by the naked eye, as well as threads so coarse it would require a great effort of strength to break them. The Throstle Spinner looks after throstle-frames, which produce warp-threads. She