of the century, and a succession of strikes organized by tailors unions (in 1827, 1830, and 1834) largely failed. The women slop-workers were seen as, and sometimes used as, strike-breakers, particularly in the London Tailors' Union strike of 1834 (which sought better wages, shorter hours, and a prohibition of the piecework and homework that slop-work involved); and contemporary commentators (such as Henry Mayhew who interviewed clothes sellers and Charles Kingsley in both his Cheap Clothes and Nasty and Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet) painted the traditional tailoring trade's view of the situation as the "honourable" traditional tradesmen (also known as "Flints") versus the "dishonourable" slop-workers (named "Dungs") who worked in sweat-shops, and the de-skilling of what was once skilled labour. The clothing, also, was criticized for its poor quality, especially those slops that were made of shoddy, and for its exploitation of mainly the low-skilled women workers in the industry whose jobs involved minute parts of the overall process of the production of the clothes. See also Parramatta cloth was one type of slop cloth made of woolen, and there were flax linen cloths for convict clothing that women convicts made at the Parramatta Female Factory. Cross-reference Sources Clothing industry