Evils of the Factory System


Book Description

First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
















Factory System Illustrated


Book Description

First Published in 1968. This a reprint of the account of William Dodd, who in 1841 had published a 46-page pamphlet entitled A Narrative of the Experience and Bufferings of William Dodd, a factory cripple, written by himself, and includes letters to Lord Ashley, soon to be Shaftesbury (1851). Dodd was a warehouseman and packer, with Isaac and William Wilson, Quaker woollen manufacturers in the ancient Lake District textile centre of Kendal.




Curse of the Factory System


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.’




The Factory System Illustrated


Book Description

Published in 1968: This book is a narrative of the authors experiences and sufferings during his time working in a Factory. It describes the life of workers in factories in a series of letters to The Right Hon. Lord Ashley.