In this last provision, and in the four inspectors appointed to observe ...
In this last provision, and in the four inspectors appointed to observe the operation of the law, we see the Radical hand.
Otherwise the Act is a watering down of the demands made by the Evangelical Tories, Oastler, Sadler, and Lord Ashley, on the basis of the Ten Hour movement in the West Riding. To the workpeople it was a disappointment, and their resentment went to animate the growing body of Popular Radicalism.
Thrown on themselves, they turned towards Direct Action, Trade Unions, and the Charter.
To the employers it was a warning, since the reduction of children's hours of necessity brought with it a rearrangement of all working hours, which ultimately the State might generalize. Outside the factories, indeed, the seventy-two-hour week was becoming common in many trades.
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But it was the Charter of the Poor. The New Poor Law ...
But it was the Charter of the Poor.
The New Poor Law was the charter of
the ratepayer, and it was failing of its
purpose.
The Pickwick Papers is not a Victorian document: it belongs to a ...
The Pickwick Papers is not a Victorian document: it belongs to a sunnier time, which perhaps had never existed.
The group of novels that follow, Oliver Twist,
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