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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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1800:
Petition for Poor Relief |
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1802:
The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act |
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1806:
House of Commons Select Committee on The Woollen Industry |
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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:
Sadler Commission Report on Child Labor - testimony of Joseph
Habergam, 17 years of age |
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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:
Health in the Factory and in the Mine - John Rule |
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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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1838:
The
First National Petition (England) |
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1839:
Leonard Horner, Inspector of Factories for the British government,
commenting on the implementation of the 1833 Factory Act |
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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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1841:
Splinter movements from Chartism - criticism by Feargus O'Connor,
Northern Star (4/3) |
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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:
Agricultural Conditions in Ireland - reported by Captain Kennedy,
Secretary to the Devonshire Commission |
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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:
Conditions in Manchester - Charles Cavendish Greville's
Memoirs |
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1845:
An extract from Lord John Russell's Edinburgh Letter of 11/22 to
support Peel's repeal of the Corn Laws |
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1845:
Industrial Conditions in Manchester, England |
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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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1846:
Sir Robert Peel's speech resigning from the House of Commons |
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1847+:
English
Views of the Irish Potato Famine |
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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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1859:
Self-Help
- Samuel Smiles |
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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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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 |
