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The Concept of Working-Class Education in Industrial Investigative Reports of the Eighteen-Thirties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Joseph A. Kestner
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Steven Marcus has observed, “On any account, the 1830s are a decade of critical importance” (15). The period is prominent in the industrial era for several far-reaching if not entirely satisfactory pieces of legislation, including the Reform Bill of 1832, Althorp's Factory Act of 1833, and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 established the principle of popular election in all corporate boroughs with the exception of London. The decade is marked, as well, by the quantification of social problems, which is represented by the statistical societies founded in Manchester in 1833 and in London in 1834 and by the Journal of the Statistical Society in 1838. These manifestations of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy reflected the shift from cottage to factory production that marked the Industrial Revolution.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 16 , Spring 1988 , pp. 57 - 75
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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