British Trade Unions, 17071918, Part I, Volume 4: 1840-1864 [Hardcover]

Drawing from a variety of libraries and archives, this collection brings together material to illustrate the history of the development of trade unionism and industrial relations. It spans the period from the early journeymen's trade societies as they emerged in the 18th-Century through to the end of the First World War.Drawing from a variety of libraries and archives, this collection brings together material to illustrate the history of the development of trade unionism and industrial relationsVolume 4: 1840-1864 Debates on the value of trade unions among both friends and enemies continued with even greater vigour in the mid-Nineteenth Century, while, at the same time, more effective and permanent national unions appeared among groups such as glassmakers, engineers, printers and miners offering benefits to members that went beyond mere support in industrial disputes. There was a conscious effort to court public opinion and this began to get a response from some employers and from politicians, although there were still plenty of industrial disputes. Chartism, Trades-Unionism, and Socialism; or which is best calculated to produce Permanent Relief to the Working Classes? A Dialogue. By Thomas Hunt (1840); [J Drury], Reply of the Committee of the Central United Grinding Branches of Sheffield to Earl Fitwilliam's Speech at the Cutlers' Feas, (1844); 'Report of the Trade Council to the Compositors of London, on the proposed National Typographical Association' The Printer (1844); 'Society in its Past and Present State', Flint Glass Makers' Magazine (1850); On the Future', Flint Glass Makers' Magazine (1851); Trades Unions, What they Were, What they are, and What they Ought to be. In Bookbinders' Consolidated Union Trade Circular (1852); Report of the Central Committee of United Trades on the Proceedings Connected with the Combination of Workmen Bill in the Parliamentary Session, 1853. To the Members of the Association of United Trades and to the Trades of Great Britain anl$