Shaftesbury, Earl

The development of the factory system saw the rapid movement of people from the country to the towns with consequent disruption of family life. Large numbers of workers and their families housed near the factories resulted in overcrowding, poor housing and poor sanitation. At work, people suffered appalling injury and disease and worked very long hours until eventually the pressures of humanitarians such as the Earl of Shaftesbury promoted legislation which improved working conditions and reduced the hours of employment of workers in factories, mines and elsewhere. 

Author Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885 reduced hours and improved conditions of young persons and women in mines, factories and other workplaces)... 

Andrew Marvell s Miscellaneous Poems. John Dryden s Absalom and Achitophel. The opposition leader Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, imprisoned and later released when a London Grand Jury issues a verdict of ignoramus. 

Bayle s influence on Shaftesbury is referred to briefly in J. B. Schneewind s The Earl of Shaftesbury (1990). Finally, John Kilcullen s monograph Sincerity and Truth Essays on Arnauld, Bayle and Toleration (1988) opens an avenue for exploring Bayle as a normative thinker before Kant, echoing thereby a subtle thesis advanced by Delvolve in Religion, critique et philosophic positive chez Pierre Bayle (1906). 

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