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Disraeli vividly depicts the appalling conditions of the poor - their pitiful wages, their miserably overcrowded tenements, and thier exploitation by the new breed of powerful industrialists - as an indirect plea for social and political reform and for the fulfilment of his dream of a new, more democratic England.