Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s by Mark Curthoys

Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s

Mark Curthoys

304 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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.
',

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...