ABSTRACT
… The leather having gone through its various stages at the currier's passes into the hands of the shoe manufacturers or factors, where the services of a class of persons called “clickers or cutters” are next required. Their duties consist in “casting”, or cutting up the skins of leather into pieces of various sizes for the shoemakers. The earnings of the “clickers” vary in some of the establishments from twelve shillings to eighteen shillings per week, the workmen usually being employed on the premises of the manufacturers. The leather having been cut into the required shapes and sizes, undergoes the process of “blocking”… Blocking is almost always done at the house of the workpeople.
