This book explains why governments decided to make trade unions legal, and protect strikers from the criminal law. Drawing on previously unused source material, Curthoys brings to light some of the workings of the nineteenth-century state.
Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain
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`...a valuable contribution to our understanding of the evolution of trade union legislation and the character of the mid-Victorian state.' History
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Mark Curthoys is a Research Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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After the repeal of the Combination Acts in the mid-1820s, the extent of the freedom to combine, and the wisdom of exercising that freedom, continued to be disputed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
friendly society legislation, unrestricted legalization, gas stokers, workmen bill, flint glass makers, collective labour law, amalgamated trades, parliamentary counsel, general criminal law, wage fund theory, household suffrage, trade combinations, summer assizes, organized employers, building employers, peaceful persuasion, railway servants, individual bargain, franchise extension, industrial conciliation, combination laws, judicial statistics, trades council, trade societies, friendly societies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Home Office, Pall Mall Gazette, Frederic Harrison, Daily News, House of Commons, Court of Queen's Bench, Fortnightly Review, London Trades Council, Daily Telegraph, Social Science Association, South Wales, Thomas Hughes, Friendly Societies Acts, Tidd Pratt, Trade Circular, Colliery Guardian, Gathorne Hardy, Board of Trade, Glasgow Sentinel, Henry Crompton, Henry Fawcett, Leeds Mercury, Quarterly Review, Russell Gurney, Trades Union Congress New!
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After the repeal of the Combination Acts in the mid-1820s, the extent of the freedom to combine, and the wisdom of exercising that freedom, continued to be disputed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
friendly society legislation, unrestricted legalization, gas stokers, workmen bill, flint glass makers, collective labour law, amalgamated trades, parliamentary counsel, general criminal law, wage fund theory, household suffrage, trade combinations, summer assizes, organized employers, building employers, peaceful persuasion, railway servants, individual bargain, franchise extension, industrial conciliation, combination laws, judicial statistics, trades council, trade societies, friendly societies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Home Office, Pall Mall Gazette, Frederic Harrison, Daily News, House of Commons, Court of Queen's Bench, Fortnightly Review, London Trades Council, Daily Telegraph, Social Science Association, South Wales, Thomas Hughes, Friendly Societies Acts, Tidd Pratt, Trade Circular, Colliery Guardian, Gathorne Hardy, Board of Trade, Glasgow Sentinel, Henry Crompton, Henry Fawcett, Leeds Mercury, Quarterly Review, Russell Gurney, Trades Union Congress New!
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- The Collected Works, Vol. 2 on 7 pages
- The Lights of Liberalism by Christopher Harvie on 5 pages
- Drink and the Victorians by Brian Harrison on 5 pages
- Trade Unions by School Curriculum Industry Pro on 4 pages
- The Industrial Revolution by Arnold Joseph Toynbee on 4 pages
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