19th Century Luddites, Chartists, Sadler's Committee
1.) To what extent were the actions of the Luddites, the Chartists and the Sadler Committee a reaction to Classical Liberalism?
Reactionaries are people in a group that opposes or asks for reforms that threatened or may change the way they are living. More likely, these reactionaries are with an ideological perspective focusing on classical conservatism or individual’s rights and freedom. Luddites, Chartists and the Sadler Committee were among those groups and have been fighting for their right as an individual or as a human. Luddites was an ideology that was created in response to classical liberalism during the 1800s in Europe wherein the working class started a movement asking for reforms as they suffers from poverty and dangerously poor conditions; thus, gave birth to the Army of Redresser who broke into textile factories and destroyed the machines. Besides the Luddites there were the Chartists who were those working class men who formed a movement in Britain to addresses political and social issues and to have reforms such as universal suffrage since they believe that a way must be created to modify the undesirable effect of classical liberalism. The Sadler Committee on the otherhand, is a parliamentary investigation of conditions that was due on Michael Sadler’s report and revealed the worst things of workers’ life in the textile factory during the Industrial Revolution. TheLuddites reactionaries responded to classical liberalism’s principles through their actions that where often radically expressed (smashing of machines)forcing the government to act as soon as possible but cannot or do not want to act due to their commitment to their laissez-faire principles. Chartists asked for electoral system reform through their initiatives and efforts believing that being granted the right to vote is the key to all the improvements in the society.The Sadler Committee investigate all these uproar during the 19th Century from the citizens, intently to bring out the
Reactionaries are people in a group that opposes or asks for reforms that threatened or may change the way they are living. More likely, these reactionaries are with an ideological perspective focusing on classical conservatism or individual’s rights and freedom. Luddites, Chartists and the Sadler Committee were among those groups and have been fighting for their right as an individual or as a human. Luddites was an ideology that was created in response to classical liberalism during the 1800s in Europe wherein the working class started a movement asking for reforms as they suffers from poverty and dangerously poor conditions; thus, gave birth to the Army of Redresser who broke into textile factories and destroyed the machines. Besides the Luddites there were the Chartists who were those working class men who formed a movement in Britain to addresses political and social issues and to have reforms such as universal suffrage since they believe that a way must be created to modify the undesirable effect of classical liberalism. The Sadler Committee on the otherhand, is a parliamentary investigation of conditions that was due on Michael Sadler’s report and revealed the worst things of workers’ life in the textile factory during the Industrial Revolution. TheLuddites reactionaries responded to classical liberalism’s principles through their actions that where often radically expressed (smashing of machines)forcing the government to act as soon as possible but cannot or do not want to act due to their commitment to their laissez-faire principles. Chartists asked for electoral system reform through their initiatives and efforts believing that being granted the right to vote is the key to all the improvements in the society.The Sadler Committee investigate all these uproar during the 19th Century from the citizens, intently to bring out the