Women and girls and a young boy at work in Bryant & May’s match factory, Fairfield Road, Bow, London Photo: The Illustrated London News (London, 1871)
Quakers: good employers?
Symon Hill looks at employment practices within the Quaker world
by Symon Hill
18th February 2011
Victorian Quakers have a good image. They are hailed as exemplary employers and pioneers of social change and, in most cases, they were: but in 1888, conditions at a Quaker-owned company were so bad that they triggered one of the first major strikes in British history.
