1997
DOI: 10.1017/s0956793300001254
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

The Friendly Society Movement and the Respectability of the Rural Working Class

Abstract: In the introduction to his practical manual on the organisation of friendly societies published in 1851 J.H. James writes:The character of a nation may be pretty well ascertained from the general features of its public institutions. When these are directed to the morals, social and intellectual training of the human mind, and to the privilege of a cultivation of religious principles we may be sure of the existence of that high degree of buoyancy and healthiness of mental vigour, accompanied by great physical e… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

0
0
0

Year Published

1999
1999
2014
2014

Publication Types

Select...
4
1

Relationship

0
5

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 6 publications
references
References 6 publications
0
0
0
Order By: Relevance