Chartist Movement in Britain, 1838-1856, Volume 1

Gregory Claeys

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000558722
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Containing over 100 pamphlets, this edition provides a resource for the study of Chartism, covering the main areas of Chartist activity, including agitation for the Charter itself, the Land Plan, the issue of moral versus physical force and trade unionism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents Page
• Acknowledgements Page
• General Introduction. The Chartist movement: a brief history Page
• Selection of texts Page
• Further reading Page
• The Life, Writings, and Principles of Thomas Spence. Author of the Spencean System, or Agrarian Equality (1836)
• Reasons in Sitpport of an Extension of the Elective Franchise to the Working Classes; Submitted to the Serious Consideration of the King and his Ministers. In a Letter from the Reverend H. Price to Joseph Hume, Esq. MP (1836)
• Address and Rules of the Working Men's Association, for Benefiting Politically, Socially, and Morally, the Useful Classes {c. 1836}
• An Address to the People of Canada; with their Reply to the Working Men's Association {c. 1837}
• State Churches Destructive of Christianity, and Subversive of the Liberties of Man (1837)
• An Address From The London Trades' Committee, Appointed to Watch the Parliamentary Inquiry into Combinations, to the Working Classes (1838)
• Rich and Poor. A Conversation Between Thomas Tomkins and William Wilkins Shewing that the Splendour of the Aristocracy is the Cause of the Misery of the Poor; that the Labourer is the Most Important Member in the State; that the Great are Dependant on the Industrious; that the Industrious are Independent of the Great; that the Income of the Nation is Entirely Produced by the Labourer; that the Labourers do not Obtain a Fair Portion of what they Produce; and that the Remedy for their Sufferings is to be Pound in the Extension of the Franchise, the Vote by Ballot, and the Shortening of the Duration of Parliament, which will Enable them to Procure the Repeal of the Corn Laws, and All Other Oppressive and Injurious Enactments (1838)
• An Address on the People's Charter, by the Reverend H. Price, to his Fellow Townsmen, the Operatives of Kidderminster, to put them on their Guard Against the Base Conduct of the Conservative Operatives, who, as 'Wolves In Sheep's Clothing,' are Endeavouring to Make the Honest Operatives a Tool Against the Liberties of their Country {c. 1838}
• The People's Charter; being the Outline of an Act to Provide for the Just Representation of the People of Great Britain in the Commons' House of Parliament: Embracing the Principles of Universal Suffrage, No Property Qualifications, Annual Parliaments, Equal Representation, Payment of Members, and Vote by Ballot (1838)
• The Working Men's Association, to the Working Classes of Europe, and Especially to the Polish People {c. 1838}
• An Address from the Working Men's Association to the People of England, in Reply to the Objections of the Press {1838}
• An Address to the Working Men of England, Especially those from Eighteen to Thirty Years of Age, who are Capable of Serving in the Standing Army (1838)
• A Glance at the Present Times, Chiefly with Reference to the Working Men (c. 1838)
• The Political Preacher; An Appeal from the Pulpit on Behalf of the Poor (1839)
• 'The Trial of the Rev. Mr Stephens for Uttering Seditious Language. Before Mr Justice Patteson'
• The Book of Murder! A Vade-mecum for the Commissioners and Guardians of the New Poor Law throughout Great Britain and Ireland, being an Exact Reprint of the Infamous Essay on the Possibility of Limiting Populousness, by Marcus, One of the Three. With a Refutation of the Malthusian Doctrine (1839)