Silesian Weavers' Revolt - Silesian Weavers' Revolt

Japanese: シュレジエン織工一揆 - シュレジエンしょっこういっき

An uprising of linen and cotton weavers took place in June 1844, mainly in Peterswaldau and Langenbierau (now Bielawa) at the foot of the Eulengebirge Mountains in the south-central part of the province of Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia. The weavers who were the main participants in the uprising were not modern factory workers, but rural cottage industry workers who were under the control of a wholesaler system and who continued to have feudal ties of subordination to their lords, and the brunt of the uprising was directed at the houses, factories, and machines of the uprising wealthy merchants who had built up their wealth on the poverty of the weavers.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1844年6月，当時のプロイセン王国シュレジエン州の中南部，オイレンゲビルゲ山麓のペータースワルダウ，ランゲンビーラウ(現，ビーラワ)を中心に起こった麻･綿織工の蜂起。蜂起の主体となった織工は近代的な工場労働者ではなく，問屋制の支配下に置かれ，領主への封建的従属関係をも引きずった農村家内工業労働者であり，蜂起の矛先が向けられたのも，織工の困窮の上に富を貯えていった成上り的な大商人の館，工場，そして機械であった。

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