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Plug Plot Riots (1842)

On the Industrial Revolution map as “Stalybridge”

Aug 1842 — A wage cut sets off a strike that reaches Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Potteries and Scotland. Strikers pull the plugs from boilers as the stoppage spreads. This is Britain’s first general strike.

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Turning point
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Luddites, Peterloo and Chartism (chapter 6 of Industrial Revolution)
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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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TURNING POINT · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914

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