In this atmosphere Fielden's Bill was finally carried. Those who have read ...
In this atmosphere Fielden's Bill was finally carried. Those who have read the debates may perhaps think that the opponents had the best of the arguement.
The 58-hour week (which, in
effect, was what
the Bill established) was a plunge, and an opposition supported by Peel, Graham, and Herbert for the Conservatives, by Brougham, Roebuck, and old Jo Hume for the economists, and backed by the warnings of the most experienced officials, is not to be ignored.But the debates mark at once the waning of the economics of pure calculation and the growth of that preoccupation with the quality of life which is dominant in the next decade.
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