The Parliamentary Debates of Charles Briggs: A Tale of Contracts,...

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The Parliamentary Debates of Charles Briggs: A Tale of Contracts, Class, and the Machinery of State

Act I: The Spark Manchester in 1842 was a city of two populations: those who owned the mills and those who were owned by them. The mills were vast, brick-beast buildings that swallowed sunlight and exhaled smoke. Their chimneys rose like church steeples, but they preached a different gospel: output, efficiency, profit. The workers lived in rows of terraced houses that smelled of coal dust and...

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