... were responsible for Louis Phillipe's downfall in 1848 can be attributed. One of the first key decisions that was taken in 1830 and was adopted throughout the rule of Louis Phillipe was the decision to adopt laissez faire economic policy. This was to ignore the demands of the workers to ban machinery, fix hours, limit competition, guarantee wages and expel immigrants. The workers felt betrayed; the regime owed its existence to the 20,000 Parisian workers who had fought bravely on the barricades in 1830. The result was a series of revolts and risings in the early 1830's, notably of the Lyon silk workers. These were vigorously and bloodily repressed and made the workers more hostile to the new regime. These heirs of the sans culottes were already highly politicised but leaders of republicanism and Carlists politicised them even further and encouraged them to strike and rise up whenever they could. ...

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