Working and trading

World's largest manufacturing centre:
greatest port → trading all over the world (i.e. tea)
→ cafés and pubs at the port to cater
greatest financial centre
80% of the population working class
a lot of immigration(mostly from Ireland)→ overcrowding
due to industrial revolution: low wages, easy jobs in factories for the children
The Factory act of 1833
child labour laws
The 1876 Education act