William Benbow
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
William Benbow fl. 1825-40, English pamphleteer and publisher. He is known especially as the author (c.1832) of the Grand National Holiday; or, Congress of the Productive Classes, which introduced the theory of the general strike and was influential in promoting class consciousness and unity among workers. Little is known of his life except that he had a publishing house in London, was a member of the National Union of Working Classes, took a minor part in the Chartist movement (see Chartism ), and was several times imprisoned.
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