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history, poverty, london, eastend, human rights
• historyhome.co.uk
The origin of 'sweatshops' that spread throughout London's East End in the late 19th and early 20th Century. The inhuman degradation imposed was clearly slavery. A sadly predictable path, well worn, and trod by the feet of Innumerable unfortunates, poverty, exploitation, sickness and unceremonious demise...literally these men, women and children were worked to death without conscious on the part of their exploiters.
QUOTE: " 'The extent to which this system of "street kidnapping" is carried on is frightful. Young tailors, fresh from the country, are decoyed by the sweatees' wives into their miserable dens, under extravagant promises of employment, to find themselves deceived, imprisoned, and starved, often unable to make their escape for months perhaps years; and then only fleeing from one dungeon to another as abominable!'
In the meantime, the profits of the beasts of prey who live on these poor fellows both masters and sweaters seem as prodigious as their cruelty..."