The poor folk were mutinous

All I gathered was that the poor folk were mutinous and wanted to do less work for more money, and the factory owners were damned if they'd let them. There may have been more to it than this, but I doubt it, and no one has ever convinced me that it was anything but a war between the two. It always has been, and always will be, as long as one man has what the other has not, and devil take the hindmost.




Flashman, p. 52, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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Flashman, Chartists, industrial relations.