Millworker

Near-synonym: millman

In DEFYING DIXIE: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore presents a colorful “collective biography of activist black and white Southerners,” including Communists and Socialists, academics and millworkers, who, she argues, prepared the way for the movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

Lostock Junction was another 'Beeching closure'. The quiet four-platform junction station primarily served the large cotton mills next to the line and the few dozen millworkers' houses nearby.