ABSTRACT

Any major sequence of structural change in the family, which touches the deepest of human sensitivities, is neither easy nor automatic. Early in such a sequence there occur periods of explosive “symptoms of disturbance ” which constitute Step 2 of the differentiation. In this chapter we shall trace these disturbances first among the factory operatives and second among the hand-loom weavers. Among the working-class turbulences of the period were appeals for relief, destruction of property, strikes, Utopian schemes such as Cobbettism and Owenism, and agitation to limit factory hours. *