Wage-earners
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wage-earners · the wage-earning class · artisans · the poor · working men · workmen
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
English working people and wage-earners whose sentiments, discontents, and growing political consciousness are analysed.
Voters who are poor, naturally enough adopt some form of socialism.
The desire to ease the sufferings, to increase the pleasures, and to satisfy the best aspirations of the mass of wage-earners has become a marked characteristic of the wealthy classes of Englishmen.
But yet the contrast between the rich and the poor in England may press more heavily upon the thoughts and the imaginations of English working men than it did towards the beginning of the nineteenth century.