The Laboring Classes of England Especially Those Concerned in Agriculture And
The Laboring Classes of England Especially Those Concerned in Agriculture And
William Dodd
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The reader will bear in mind that Mr. Arkwright was the son of Sir Richard Arkwright, who, about the year 1778 was a common barber in Preston, Lancashire, shav- ing for one cent per head. On one occasion the Preston barber had to make his appearance in a court of justice; CONDITION OF FEMALE OPERATIVES. 105 but his clothing was so mean that he was ashamed to go, and being too poor to purchase any thing new, his friends and customers entered into a subscription of one shilling each, to put him i...n decent plight. How many thousands of human beings have been hur- ried off to an untimely grave, in scraping together for these gentlemen, father and son, the enormous sum of upwards of forty millions of dollars, time will not reveal. It is this sort of work that has made England so full of cripples and paupers. LETTER XIV. CONDITION OF FEMALE OPERATIVES. At a meeting recently held in Bradford, * in Yorkshire, to take into consideration the deplorable condition of 12, 000 female factory operatives employed in that town, mention was made of the high moral and social condi- tion of the female operatives of Lowell.
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