Chartist
- noun
- /ˈtʃɑrtɪst/
- In his lifetime, Lovett alternately got locked into one side or the other: imprisoned as a seditious Chartist by the authorities; attacked as a class traitor by O'Connor and his following.
- Chartist movement
- Chartist Petition
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Carnegie's early inspiration from the Chartists gradually took precedence over rational competitiveness for survival and the accumulation of money in the marketplace.
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Among other nineteenth-century British writers, the Chartists are exalted along with those novelists called "critical realists." The Chartist labor movement was, according to Lenin, "the first broad, really mass, politically formed proletarian revolutionary movement."
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But they are a minority within the Chartist movement.
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That's not what the Chartists and the suffragettes fought for.
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Upon his release from prison in 1840, Lovett withdrew from political agitation in the street while continuing to promote Chartist principles.
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In Holbeck ward, such divisions helped ensure that Chartists were returned every year between 1847 and 1850.
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To give what she sympathetically calls "the rough, untutored words" of the Chartist delegation no content other than a cry for help from their betters is to deny the core of Chartist politics.
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Many Chartists advocated for universal suffrage and better working conditions during the 19th century.
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The Chartists organized large demonstrations to demand political reforms for the working class.
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During the 1830s and 1840s, several key figures emerged as prominent Chartists advocating for social change.
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Etymology
The word Chartist comes from the Charter in the 'People's Charter' of 1838, a written list of demands for workers' rights. The ending -ist means 'a person who supports' something, so a Chartist was someone who supported that charter and worked for political change.