Ah I see. What about those who were weavers before the industrial revolution or did handloom not exist before then?
Well remember one of the main points of bringing in factory production is the de-skilling of labour. It takes far less time to train a factory worker than it would to make someone a skilled handloom weaver from scratch. This means you can pay them less.
In a factory jobs are broken down into their smallest parts and the divion of labour means that each worker only performs on tiny part of the job.
The old weavers were very skilled but you wouldn't need that skill to work in the factory as you would be only doing one tiny task instead of being a skilled craftsmen making a product from start to finish. You might even be maintaining a machine and not interacting with actually wool at all.
People who were handloom Weavers would not necessarily be working in the mills as the jobs has very different skill sets despite producing the same thing.
Would handloom weavers be considered working class?
Well it would depend. It they are working for someone else and being paid a wage to do the weaving in exchange for the product of the labour belonging to the boss to sell then yes.
If they do it for themselves and then sell it themselves they are (very) petite bourgeoisie.
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