HIST 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Edwin Chadwick, Speenhamland System, Friedrich Engels
15 Dec 2015
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Bad thesis statement is too general or vague and does not place its problems into an appropriate context. Britain struggles to balance remaining a superpower in production and treating its workers humanely. Skies lled with smoke and rivers black with sludge. But this is looked upon as something positive because the government took it as a sign that people must be buying british products and therefore brits were being paid the economy was running on all cylinders. First major response to the dismal conditions of industrial england. First working-man"s union, agitates for universal suffrage, more pay, pay of mps and better working conditions. Currently mps weren"t paid and therefore couldn"t run for of ce because they couldn"t support themselves therefore common people couldn"t run and pursue the change they wanted to occur. Elected as an independent member of parliament, starts a newspaper (northern star) and organizes chartist groups across the country.
