British Trade Unions, 17071918, Part I, Volume 2: 1801-1826 [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 2: 1801-1825 London Journeymen Millwrights. Rules Adopted by the Journeymen Millwrights for the well-governing of their Society ( 1801); John Gast, Calumny Defeated: or, A Compleat Vindication of the Conduct of the Working Shipwrights, during the late Disputes with their Employers (1802); The Memorial of the Journeymen Calico Printers and Others Connected with their Trade (1804); Memorial of David George, Alexander Cowie, James Anderson, William Aitken, and William Fleming, for themselves, and the other Compositor-Printers of the City of Edinburgh; against Mr David Ramsay, printer in Edinburgh, for himself and in behalf of the other Master Printers in Edinburgh (1804); Gentlemen, The Master and Journeymen Mechanics, Handicraftsmen and Artificiers of England etc. (1812); To the Operative Weavers of Carlisle, And its Vicinity (1811); Considerations addressed to the Journeymen Calico Printers, by One of their Masters (1815); An Address to the Colliers of Ayrshire at the Formation of the Colliers' Association in 1824, Printed at Kilmarnock in 1824, by H. Crawford Bookseller, and now reprinted for Distribution among the delegates of the Ayrshire Miners' Union (1824); Combination and Arbitration Laws, Artizans and Machinery. Abstract of the Acts Repealing the Laws against Combinations of Workmen and Emigration of Artizans; Abstract of the Act for Arbitrating Differences betwixt the Workmen and their Employers; Speech of Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P. in the House of Commons on 12 Fl#¹