Lord Shaftesbury and Social-Industrial Progress

Originally published in 1926, this volume is much more than a biography of an outstanding politician, social reformer and philosopher. It provides an analysis of the history of social conditions in England during the nineteenth century, as well as a discussion of the development of social affairs and the inertia of political psychology. The role that faith and religion played in motivating Lord Shaftesbury's desire for social reform is also discussed as is the ways in which he and John Wesley transformed the social and ethical ideas of England to enshrine in law many of the working conditions that we take for granted today such as defined hours of work and rest periods.

J. Wesley Bready died in 1953.

Part 1: Shaftesbury: His Ideals and Aspirations 1. Birth and Early Youth 2. Further Preparation and Youthful Aspirations 3. His Religious Creed 4. Shaftesbury's Political Axioms 5. Shaftesbury's Place in the Thought of His Day 6. A Life Sacrifice for the Disinherited Part 2: Shaftesbury: A life-Crusade and the Fruit It Bore 7. On the Eve of Shaftesbury's Labours 8. The Treatment of Lunatics 9. The Lodging-House Scandal 10. Health, Sanitation and Recreation 11. The Problem of Popular Education 12. The Ragged Schools and the Nation's Outcast 13. The Ten Hours Bill - First Round of the Struggle 14. The Great Fight and Apparent Victory 15. A Legal Quibble (The Ten Hours Bill) 16. Division Among Friends 17. A Bill of Emancipation 14. Other Industrial Victories 20. Shaftesbury and the Opium Traffic 21. The Liquor Traffic 22. Shaftesbury, the Master Figure of Social Reform. .