Chartism middle class
The middle class radicals insisted on the adoption of a 96-clause ‘New Bill of Rights’ for universal suffrage instead of the emotive ‘Charter’. This was an attempt to disassociate middle class radicalism from the anarchic confusion associated with O’Connor and his supporters. Things did not start well. Aspects of Chartism: Middle class protest The emergence of the middle classes was a product of industrialisation and urbanisation and between 1780 and 1850 they established themselves as a challenge of the political hegemony of the landed interest [1] .