THE VILLAGE LABOURER
1760–1832
THE VILLAGE LABOURER
1760–1832
A Study in the Government of England
before the Reform Bill
BY
J. L. HAMMOND AND BARBARA HAMMOND
... The men who pay wages ought not to be the political masters of those who earn them (because laws should be adapted to those who have the heaviest stake in the country, for whom misgovernment means not mortified pride or stinted luxury, but want and pain, and degradation and risk to their own lives and to their children’s souls)....
Lord Acton.
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1912
TO
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