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1795:
Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City - John
Aikin |
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1798:
An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Thomas Malthus |
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19c:
Images of the Industrial Revolution in England |
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19c:
Table Showing the Comparative Weight of Factory & Non-Factory
English Children |
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1802:
The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act |
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1807:
Child Labor in Cotton Factories - Robert Southey,
Letters from England |
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1812:
A Luddite attack on a Yorkshire mill |
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1812:
Luddite Oath |
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1813-49:
Various Descriptions of Workhouse Children, England |
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1814:
The English Corn Laws |
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1816:
Evidence of James Pattison (on the state of health and morals of children
employed in
manufactories) |
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1816:
Robert Owen and Robert Peel - Testimony regarding
Child Labor |
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1817:
The Iron Law of Wages
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1818:
Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System - Robert
Owen |
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1819:
Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill |
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1819:
The Peterloo Massacre |
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1819:
Samuel Bamford - Passages in the Life of a Radical: On the
Peterloo Massacre |
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1819:
The Six Acts |
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1823:
"The Steam Loom" - Richard Guest |
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1828:
William Radcliffe - On Power Looms |
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1830s?:
Power Loom - weaving in England |
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1830:
Wages of Factory Workers in Leeds - statistical chart |
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1831:
Thomas Babington Macaulay - Speech on the Reform
Bill of 1832 |
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1831:
Various Comments on the London Reform Riots of 1831 |
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1831-32:
Transcripts from the Sadler Commission Investigation |
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1832:
Debates Amongst Lyonnais Weavers and Republicans |
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1832:
Dr. Samuel Smith's Testimony to the House of Commons |
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1832:
Macauley On Parliamentary Reform |
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1832:
The Moral and Physical Conditions of the Working Classes of
Manchester in 1832 - Sir James
Kay-Shuttleworth |
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1832:
Reform Act (Britain) |
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1832:
Speech of Michael Sadler in the House of Commons on the second
reading of the Factories
Regulation Bill |
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1832-42:
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19c England -
several docs. |
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1833:
Age of Workers in Cotton Mills in Lancashire, England -
statistical chart |
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1833:
An Act Abolishing Slavery Throughout the British Colonies |
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1833:
The Factory Act |
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1833:
Minutes of Mark Best's evidence taken before the Committee on
the Factories Bill |
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1833:
The People's Charter |
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1833:
Report of the Commissioners on the employment of children in
factories |
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1833:
"A Well Conducted Factory" - article in
The Penny Magazine |
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1834:
The Lyon Uprising |
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1834:
The Poor Laws Amendment Act |
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1834:
"To the Straw Bonnet Makers" - in the Owenite journal, The
Pioneer |
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1835:
"Notes on a Journey to the Mines of Cornwall and Wales" -
article in The Penny Magazine |
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1835:
"The Philosophy of the Manufacturers" - Andrew Ure |
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1838:
The Barnsley Manifesto |
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1838:
The Chartist Petition of 1838 |
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1838:
Deaths in British Coal Mines |
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1839:
The First National Petition (England) |
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1839-40:
The view of a soldier on Chartist activity in the north of
England - from the diaries of Sir Charles Napier |
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1840:
Conditions in Nottingham in 1840 - General Sir Charles Napier |
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1840s:
Condition of the Poor in Manchester - John Layhe |
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1840:
Pamphlet - In Defence of Laissez-Faire |
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1840:
William Ellery Channing - On the Elevation of the
Laboring Classes |
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1841:
Robert Peel's Speech on the Corn Laws |
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1842:
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions |
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1842:
The Debate on the 1842 Charter |
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1842:
Duncombe's Speech Introducing the 1842 Charter |
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1842:
The Factory System Illustrated -
"Mary Bucktrout" - William Dodd |
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1842:
Public Reaction to the Disclosure of Conditions in the Coal
Mines - Conservative Party's periodical, the
Quarterly Review |
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1842:
Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on Conditions in the Mines |
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1842:
Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission |
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1842:
Thomas Macaulay's speech against Chartism |
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1842:
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits
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1843:
"Capital
and Labor" - an 1843 English cartoon on the exploitation of
children in the mines |
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1844:
Industrial Manchester - Friedrich Engels |
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1844:
Introduction to The Condition of the Working Class in England
- Friedrich Engels |
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1844:
Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on the Ten-Hour Act |
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1845:
"Cheap Clothing" - political cartoon by John Leach in
Punch |
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1845:
Industrial Conditions in Manchester, England - Friedrich Engels |
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1845:
Prince Albert's memorandum on the Corn Laws (12/25) |
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1845:
"A Wise Factory Owner" -
Parliamentary Papers 1845, XXV,
pp. 456-7 (Britain) |
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1846:
Sir Robert Peel's Speech on the Repeal of the Corn Laws |
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1848:
Das Kapital, Book I - Karl Marx (Chapter 10) |
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1848?:
A Letter in Reply to a Hand-Bill published by the Curate of
Rotherham, criticizing Chartism |
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1848:
The People's Charter |
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mid-19c:
"Cripples in the Yard of Children's Home in London" - picture |
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1854:
Charles Dickens
- excerpts from Hard Times |
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1861:
Study of London Labour and the London Poor, Volume I - Henry
Mayhew |
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1863:
Utilitarianism
(Chapter 1 - General Remarks)- John Stuart Mill |
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1867:
Reform Act (Britain) |
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1870-1913:
Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization in the
Western World |
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1882:
Self-Help - Samuel Smiles |
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1891:
Pope Leo XIII
-
Rerum Novarum |
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1917:
J.L. Hammond - The Town Labourer |
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1919:
J.L. Hammond - The Skilled Laboure |
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1920:
J.L. Hammond - The Village Labourer |
