Chartism. Class Division Working Classes vs. Middle Classes Industrious Classes vs. Lazy Classes.

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Chartism

Class Division Working Classes vs. Middle Classes Industrious Classes vs. Lazy Classes

Anti-Corn Law League: Middle Class Chartists: Working Class

Causes Radical tradition Disillusionment with Reform Bill Poor Law of 1834 Trade Union failure

Depression of 1837

The Norman Yoke Original English freedom

Chartist Idea Political power leads to economic power Franchise necessary for political power

The People’s Charter 1.Universal Manhood Suffrage 2.Secret Ballot 3.Equal Electoral Districts 4.Payment for MPs 5.Abolition of Property Qualification 6.Annual Elections

National Chartist Meetings

Kennington Common (1848)

Chartist Movement National, but also local Leaders not working class

Immediate Consequences Growth of police Whigs backed off political reform Social reform moved forward

Economic Goals Unclear Agreed that labor the source of all value

Cooperate? Violence?

Feargus O’Connor The Northern Star

Short-term Results Failure

Long-Term Context Social, political, economic not separate Economic power comes first or second?

From movement to rhetoric

Mass meetings end Chartist ideas continue

George W. M. Reynolds Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper