1st Edition

Curse of the Factory System

By John Fielden Copyright 1970
132 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

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;... Read more
A short account of the origin of factory cruelties; of the attemepts to protect the children by law; of their present sufferings; our duty towards them; injustoce 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.

Biography

John Fielden, M .P . FOR OLDHAM, AND MANUFACTURER AT TODUORDEN IN LANCASHIRE