The Royal Commission on Hand-Loom Weavers was an enquiry in the United Kingdom into unemployment and poverty in the textile industry.
The number of handloom weavers in the United Kingdom was estimated at 400,000, and the economic consequences of industrial textile production bore heavily on them.
The opposition of laisser faire members meant it had no chance; but Fielden continued to advocate action.
[31] Hickson made a separate report in 1840; in it he advocated abolition of the Corn Laws, and a system of national education.
[10] Senior included in it extracts from an unpublished study he had made ten years earlier, after Lord Melbourne had invited him to report on trade combinations and strikes.