Description
David Parish asks whether 19th Century factory owners who professed an active faith in God behaved or acted differently from their peers. Did faith matter in practice? He then considers three well-documented examples, and concludes that it did, but that there were ‘blind spots’. Examples are the employment of child labour in dangerous conditions, unawareness of pollution and other health hazards to the workers, and disregard for the supply chain, where slavery and poor conditions were probably known.
