Francis Place
historical figure · 1 work · 7 mentions · 15 anchored passages
Place · the Westminster tailor
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Radical reformer named as one of those who expected parliamentary reform to produce a triumph of Benthamism.
Radicals, such as the two Mills, Joseph Hume, or Francis Place, held that reform meant the triumph of unadulterated Benthamism.
Some Benthamites, such as Place, believed that trade unionism would disappear if only the laws against trade combinations were repealed;
Francis Place disbelieved in trade unionism, but believed heart and soul in Malthusianism, and in the saving virtues of the New Poor Law, if only it were administered with sufficient severity.