Using only the evidence in the village do you agree that Titus Salt built Saltaire solely for the good of his worker's?

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Ateeb Wahid                                                                                    History Coursework

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Using only the evidence in the village do you agree that Titus Salt built Saltaire solely for the good of his worker’s?

 I do think Titus Salt built Saltaire for the good of his workers but not solely, fro he was a business man and his job is to make money like all business man. I will now prove why Titus Salt built Saltaire not only for the good of his workers, but also to make money, become famous, have control over his workers and a small part to do with his religion.

Sir Titus Salt was born in Morley near Leeds on the 20th September 1803.

“Morley was an important centre of religious Noncomfirty”, so naturally Titus Salt was bought up to believe in God. His father was Daniel Salt. Daniel Salt moved his family to Bradford in 1822 and started a wool stapling Business. His business was fairly successful so he was able to send Titus Salt to Health grammar school. After his schooling Titus Salt worked at Messrs Rouse& Son were he learned the skills of wool sorting, combing, spinning and weaving, which was very useful when he started his own business. He then joined his father’s business and became the firm’s wool buyer.

When Titus Salt’s father, Daniel Salt, retired in 1833 he took over the company and over the next twenty years Titus Salt had expanded to become the largest employer in Bradford. He now owned 5 textile mills. The main asset of Titus Salt’s fame and fortune was because of his successful purchase of alpaca fabrics in England, which allowed his factories to produce a “worsted cloth of unusually fine lustre at an acceptable price”.

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As well as being a very successful business man Titus Salt was involved in politics. He supported adult suffrage the right for every adult to vote, no matter what his or her economical status. He wasn’t content with the 1832 Reform act and believed it should go further. He was a founder of the Bradford Reform Association in 1835 and “publicly supported the chartists” However, Titus Salt was a stern critic of the 1834 poor law. Furthermore, he supported the idea to reduce working hours and he was the first employer to introduce the ten-hour working day. However, Titus ...

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