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The novel’s protagonist, Stephen Blackpool, recognises the lure of paid employment in trapping individuals in the town from neighbouring rural spaces: ”...see the numbers o’ people as has been broughten into bein heer, fur to weave, an’ to card, an to piece out a livin’, aw the same one way, somehows, twixt their cradles and their ... ................
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