As a Victorian prime minister, Disraeli may not have thought highly of the working classes, but he reveals a considerable sympathy for them here. Sybil, a romance, includes excoriating descriptions of the “tommy” or company store system (in which workers were forced to buy poor-quality goods at crippling prices), of the young women toiling in… Continue reading Sybil, or the Two Nations. Benjamin Disraeli 1846
