Please can anyone clarify what I think are various employment practices in place at Dowlais/Ebbw Vale iron mines as described in 1842 by Rhys William Jones. All relate to women or girls working at the mine banks (I think):
At Dowlais Iron Works: ‘I work with another girl who has the ‘polling’ at this bank by the job.’
At Ebbw Vale: 2 women ‘pick the mine ore clean and stack it up ready for measuring’ (several others describe stacking ‘mine’) and ‘I work for Richard Evans. He has the work by the dozen’.
Most seem to be contracting out but I am not sure how the rest works.
Many thanks,
Lynne
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