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I've written "Respectability" up on the board.
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Respectability means reform and not revolution.
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The aristocracy of labor, who were craftsmen and artisans
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who could be seen walking through Hyde Park
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with their ladies on their arms wearing suits, of all things, on Sundays,
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the bourgeois respectability had a political aspect of it, too.
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In 1848 Britain does not rebel.
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More about this in a minute.
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The other context is Chartism,
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which you should read about.
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Chartist campaigns were campaigns to get ordinary people
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to sign an enormous charter with millions and millions of names.