Sheffield Outrages
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Sheffield Outrages
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The Sheffield Outrages were a series of explosions and murders by a group of trade unionists carried out in Sheffield, England in the 1860s. Sheffield's early success in steel production had involved long working hours, in conditions which offered little or no safety protection. In The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Friedrich Engels quotes a local doctor, Dr. Knight, regarding the so-called "Grinder's Asthma" suffered by the Sheffield cutlery workers in the mid 19th century:
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