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Oastler

/ ˈəʊstlə /

noun

  1. OastlerRichard17891861MBritishSOCIAL SCIENCE: social reformer Richard. 1789–1861, British social reformer; he campaigned against child labour and helped achieve the ten-hour day (1847)


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I have heard Oastler speak of the tyranny of factory life in Keighley.

Oastler said he would not present fiction to them, but tell them what he himself had seen.

The matter was brought to a trial at Bingley, Oastler backing the father.

The champions of that great movement were Fielding, Ferrand, and Oastler.

Oastler took up the case of the children, twelve of whom with crooked legs he had exhibited in the House of Commons.

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