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Comrades for the Charter
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Young people become involved with working-class activists demanding political representation during the Chartist agitation. Their loyalties are tested by poverty, public meetings, state surveillance and the danger that protest may turn violent.
The book approaches nineteenth-century reform from below, showing how voting rights, wages and housing were connected in everyday experience. Trease treats Chartism as a serious democratic movement rather than a picturesque disturbance.
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