1st Edition
Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820–1914
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Table of Truck Statutes
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Christopher Frank is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
'Frank is very good on the nuts and bolts of the legislative process, documenting the different arguments and rhetorical strategies adopted by the parties concerned and tracing their influence on the final legislation. He is equally attentive to the ways in which the legal system often failed to prevent the abuse of workers, whether through a partisan refusal on the part of magistrates to convict their social peers (or to impose minimal punishments where convictions were unavoidable), or through narrow interpretations of the relevant statutes on the part of the higher courts.'
- Mike Sanders, University of Manchester, Victorian Studies
