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Stephen Blackpool (illustrative)
The honest hand
Dickens's conscience of labour.
Economic−72
SocialistMarket
Governance−28
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+40
TraditionalProgressive
Dickens's mill-worker, whose dignity amid industrial cruelty stands in for the rank-and-file labourer at the heart of the syndicalist hope for workers' self-rule.
social
Moral, long-suffering working-class humanity.
economic
A worker crushed between owners and organisers alike.
governance
Embodies the rank-and-file's yearning for dignity over masters.
Notable for
- Figure in 'Hard Times'
- The honest labouring everyman
- Critique of industrialism
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