The Chartist movement peaks as a democratic…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
The working class ignores foreign agitators like Karl Marx in their midst, and joins in celebrating the new prosperity.
Employers typically are paternalistic, and generally recognize the trade unions.
Companies provide their employees with welfare services ranging from housing, schools and churches, to libraries, baths, and gymnasia.
Middle-class reformers do their best to assist the working classes aspire to middle-class norms of 'respectability.'