On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
It is in manufacturing towns and labouring villages that those burthens press the heaviest; in many of which it is one class of poor supporting another.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “It is in manufacturing towns and labouring villages that those burthens press the heaviest; in many of which it is one…”
Editor's note · Context
Paine describes how the heaviest social and economic burdens disproportionately fall on the working classes in industrial areas.
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