The half-holiday question considered
Subtitle: with some thoughts on the instructive and healthful recreations of the industrial classes
By: by John Lilwall, honorary secretary of the Early Closing Association
Series: Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Publisher: Kent & Co.
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Hours of labor; Working class; Social conditions; Recreation
Notes: "'The board of management of the Early Closing Association are anxious it should be understood that, in the measures they are taking, they are not influenced by any undue amount of regard for the poor man, assistant, warehouseman, or clerk as such, but rather by the desire to promote the physical and social comfort, and moral elevation of the great body of industrial classes.'--From the statement read at a meeting held at the Guildhall, London, on the 15th day of August, 1855, for the promotion of weekly-half-holidays."

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] B.856.