From 1831 a series of acts of Parliament dealt with those employers who compelled their employees to purchase goods in their own shops using tokens supplied by them. What name was given to these measures?

A close associate of Karl Marx wrote a comprehensive study in 1844 called "The Condition of the Working Class in England", based on his extensive research in the Manchester area. Who was he?

Who invented the safety lamp of 1816, which was - at least for a time - useful in enhancing safety in mines?

In the early nineteenth century a group of workers began to destroy industrial machinery, arguing that increasing mechanisation would put jobs at risk. What name was given to this group?

The New Poor Law of 1834 discouraged the provision of poor relief to anyone who refused to enter which kind of residential institution?

In 1834 a group of Dorset farm labourers was sentenced to transportation for attempting to organise a trade union. By what name were they known?

Which businessman and philanthropist set up New Lanark Mills in Scotland, where an efficient business accompanied a regime of welfare for the workforce?

A second pandemic of which disease, spread by infected water, erupted in Britain from 1831?

Which disease, sometimes also referred to as consumption, was common in Britain where dwellings were congested?

Between 1832 and 1844 a series of acts regulated the use of child labour. What name was given to these measures?