The Making of the English Working Class

18th century agitation artisans Bamford Bill Birmingham Bolton Burdett Carlile Cartwright centres Chartist Church Cobbett Combination Acts Committee common cotton croppers delegates Despard Dissent districts early employed employers England English evidence factory framework-knitters Francis Place G. D. H. Cole Government H. W. C. Davis Halifax Hammonds Hampden Clubs hand hand-loom weavers History House Hunt Industrial Revolution Irish Jacobin John journeymen labour Lancashire leaders Leeds Mercury letter liberty London Lord Lord Sidmouth Luddism Luddites magistrates Manchester manufacturing masters meeting ment Methodist middle-class Midlands mills moral movement Nottingham organisation Owen Owenite Paine Paine's Peterloo Political Register poor popular power-loom prisoners Radical reformers reports revolutionary riots secret Sheffield shoemakers Sidmouth skilled social society stockingers Thelwall Thistlewood Thomas tion took towns trade union tradition trial villages wages West Riding Whig workers working-class wrote Yorkshire