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The Curse of the Factory System: 25
Author(s): John Fielden (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 Aug. 1969
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 0714613940
- ISBN-13: 9780714613949
Book Description
First published in 1969, John Fielden was a businessman, Radical, humanitarian and Parliamentarian, often bored haughty politicians and shocked respectable middle-class opinion. This is a reprint of his work Curse of the factory system’, or ‘A short account of the origin of factory cruelties; of the attempts to protect the children by law; of their present sufferings; our duty towards them; injustice of Mr Thomson’s Bill; the folly of the political economists, a warning against sending the children of the South into the factories of the North.’
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John Fielden, M .P . FOR OLDHAM, AND MANUFACTURER AT TODUORDEN IN LANCASHIRE
