Hillsborough, a hideous steel and cutlery town on a lovely site, is ruled in its workshops by unions that enforce their rules by sabotage and violence. Henry Little, a gifted young toolmaker who refuses to submit, finds himself fighting the trade, the local squire and the weather, while falling in love with Grace Carden, a lady above his station.
A vigorous, reform-minded novel drawn from Reade’s research into the Sheffield outrages of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.