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I comment on a video of a bus ride out from the centre of Bradford, UKalong Thornton Road. These areas and the side streets would have been among the worst for the primitive living conditions in the early 18th century.
I have often wondered why the exploitation and arduous living conditions of the so called working classes in Britain did not lead to the same outrage and violent revolution as in many other areas of the world particulalry Europe. Why the lid was kept on in Britain. It's probably very complex again. Most socieites started of as agrarian, but it was explotation of agrarian societes, by the wealthy, that caused outrage in Europe (Russian, French, Nazi's). There was no catalyst to the explotation other than the explotation. Around Bradford, the lot of the woolomber may not have been too bad - living by a mixture of farming, scrathing for coal, weaving. A content, self made man with some automy. Perhaps there was a remote Lord of the Manor - but what's a dozen ducks eggs at Christmas as a tax. Why did he become a wool stapler and go around asking other people to do lots of bits of work for him. I think that is an unanswered question? But he did, perhaps because he was a clever chap or wanted an adventure. Anyway he got fiddled by other weavers, woolcombers, merchants and he didn't like this. So, the screw was turned, machines did away with the fiddlers and got them under control. The so called working class were hung by their own petard. So how can they complaint in Britain. They'd been caught out. Perhaps class in Britain is actually less class than anywhere else, more a class of common sense or of the fiddlers.
On the adventures of the woolcoomber perhaps it was issus like a simple interest in developing something that had caught his eye. I bet lack of space could have been one of the real drivers (often the case in the UK) - he hadn't the good fortunate of enough space to do all the activities necessary himself - so he sought to get other people to do things and found he just became the organiser, other people finding they had similar issues and only wanted to work part time at something themselves. Perhaps relations with his partner were particulalry close and he had a lot of children and he needed more land (space again) for food - so he got on a ship and tried to get some from America - a better life. Perhaps his interests of developing something meant he had/wanted to spend more time on it, so he wanted part time on most other things. The isssues are of intimately related to why a man does something, does anything - and strangely (this IS the inequality) these do not seem to be the same for a  woman.

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