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The Aftermath

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The Factory Movement, 1830–1855

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After its long agitation, the Factory Movement did not achieve all of its aims. But the 60 hours’ week, worked in set periods, greatly benefited thousands of workers. Some modern historians, engaged in disproving exaggerated accounts of the social effects of the Industrial Revolution, have perhaps unduly minimised the brutal conditions of early factory life, and thus ‘reduced’ the apparent importance of the Factory Acts. But the discovery that the Movement’s case was sometimes buttressed by over-painted or even untrue allegations, and that some reformers’ motives were more subtly complicated than their purely humanitarian professions indicated, should not be allowed to conceal the fact that before the reforms work was often fantastically long and discipline harsh.

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Ward, J.T. (1962). The Aftermath. In: The Factory Movement, 1830–1855. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81759-7_16

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