1st Edition

The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries

By W.H. Warburton Copyright 1931
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries (1931) is an account, by a potter and trade unionist, of trade unionism in the pottery industry of North Staffordshire. It describes the efforts of a century to create a stable organisation capable of negotiating on equal terms with the employers from the first spasmodic struggles of 1825 down to the establishment of... Read more

1. In Early Days  2. The First Potters’ Unions  3. The National Association and the Potters  4. The National Union of Creative Potters  5. The Strikes of 1834 and 1836  6. The United Branches  7. Conflicting Ideas  8. Arbitration  9. The Change  10. The Problems of the Last Generation  11. How the Problems Were Met  12. To-day

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W.H. Warburton