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Chartist movement
collective action
Combination Act
Common Seal
Dorchester Labourers
early British labour organisation
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Flint Glass Makers
Framework Knitters
friendly
Friendly Societies
gender and work
Glasgow Spinners
Grand National Holiday
industrial relations
Journeymen Steam Engine
labour history
Lancashire Cotton Spinners
Lancashire Cotton Weaving
Lancashire Strikes
London Building Trade
National Equitable Labour Exchange
Northern Star
Operative Stonemasons
People's Charter
People’s Charter
Philanthropic Hercules
societies
state intervention labour
Statutory Apprenticeship
Thames Shipwrights
Trade Unionism
Workmen
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859282434
- Weight: 910g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has been marginalised in much recent scholarship. In a critical survey from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, this book argues for its reinstatement. Trade unionism is shown to be both intrinsically important and to provide a window onto the broader historical landscape; the evolution of trade union principles and practices is traced from the seventeenth century to mid-Victorian times. Underpinning this survey is an explanation of labour organisation that reaches back to the fourteenth century. Throughout, the emphasis is on trade union mentality and ideology, rather than on institutional history. There is a critical focus on the politics of gender, on the demarcation of skill and on the role of the state in labour issues. New insight is provided on the long-debated question of trade unions’ contribution to social and political unrest from the era of the French Revolution through to Chartism.
Malcolm Chase, University of Leeds, UK
