224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one. It is therefore all the more important in the light of recent events to examine the origins and development of trade-union organization over the decades if we are to understand the... Read more
Chapter 1 Writing Trade-Union History; Chapter 2 Trends in Trade-Union Development, 1825–75; Chapter 3 The Origins and Establishment of the Trades Union Congress; Chapter 4 Trends in Modern Trade Unionism; Chapter 5 Early Trade Unionism in the Printing Industry; Chapter 6 The London Society of Master Letter-Founders, 1793–1820; Chapter 7 The Struggle for a Free Press; Chapter 8 The Ideology of Early Co-Operation in Lancashire and Cheshire; Chapter 9 Robert Blincoe and the Early Factory System;
Biography
Professor of Economic History University of Manchester
