Quakers: good employers?
Symon Hill looks at employment practices within the Quaker world
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.
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