Speeches of the Earl of Shaftesbury, upon subjects relating to the claims and interests of the labouring class

by Anthony Ashley Cooper

1868. Children in Factories; Children Not Protected by the Factory Acts; Children in Mines and Collieries; Education of the Working Classes; Condition of the Agricultural Laboring Population; Ten Hours Factory Bill; Treatment of Lunatics; Legislation for the Laboring Classes; Children in Calico Print-Works; Regulation of Lunatic Asylums; Social Condition of the Laboring Classes; Ten Hours Factory Bill; Dwelling Places of the Working Classes; Public Health Bill; Emigration and Ragged Schools; Lodging Houses for the Working Classes; Religious Liberty in Turkey; Young Men's Christian Association; Sanitary Legislation; Literary Institutes for Working Men; Religious Service in Theaters; Indian Irrigation and Inland Navigation; Legislation on Social Subjects; Refuges for Homeless Children; Homeless Boys of London; Clerical Vestments Bill; Agricultural Gangs; and Representation of the People Bill.

438 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 2004

About the author

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG (28 April 1801 – 1 October 1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851 and then Lord Shaftesbury following the death of his father, was a British politician, philanthropist and social reformer. He was the eldest son of Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, and older brother of Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper.