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Demonstrations of workers relatively commonplace after 1815
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Luddites
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End of Napoleonic wars
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Peterloo Massacre
St Peter's field Manchester
Mass meeting to call for parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Authorities sent in the cavalry. 11 people were killed, 400 injured. -
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Corn laws and state interventionism in the economy, more and more criticized.
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New Poor Law