Overview

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.

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Author:   W. Hamish Fraser
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Weight:   2.948kg
ISBN:  

9781851968305

ISBN 10:   185196830
Pages:   1600
Publication Date:   01 May 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Mixed media product
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Table of Contents

Part I Volume 1: 1707-1800 By the King., a Proclamation, for putting into Execution the Laws against Unlawful Clubs and Combinations, and for Preventing Tumults and Riotous Assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual Punishing of Rioters (1717); The Case of the Journeymen Taylors and Journeymen Staymakers, Residing within the Cities of London and Westminster, and Weekly Bills of Mortality (1721); The Case of the Master Taylors residing within the Cities of London and Westminster, in relation to the Great Abuses committed by their Journeymen (1721); An Abstract of the Master-Taylors Bill before the Honourable House of Commons; with the Journeymen's Observation in each clause of the said Bill (1721); Answers for William Clark Deacon of the Taylors in Edinburgh to the Petition of Patrick McDuff Journeyman Taylor in the Canongate (1728); The Worsted Small-Ware Weavers. Apology together with all their Articles, which either concern their Society or Trade. To which is added, A Farewell Discourse, made by their first Chair-Man. All faithfully collected by Timothy Shuttle (1756); A Letter to a Friend Occasioned by the Late Disputes betwixt the Check-Makers of Manchester and Their Weavers; and the Checkmakers Ill-Usage of the Author (1759); Memorial for the Colliers of Scotland (1762); Information for the Magistrates and Procurator fiscal of the bailie-court of Aberdeen, pursuers against the journeymen-woolcombers in Aberdeen, defenders (1762); Articles of Continuation of the Society of Journeymen Taylors in Glasgow (1775); An Impartial Representation of the Case of the Poor Cotton Spinners of Lancashire, &c with a Mode Proposed to the Legislature for their Relief, and an Humble Petition to His Majesty in their Behalf (1780); To the Nobility, Gentry, Magistrates, and Representatives in Parliament, of every County and Town in Great Britain; more especially those of the town and country of Leicester. The Humble Petition of the Poor Spinners, which on every moderate calculations consists of Eighteen thousand, Five Hundred, employed in the Town and County aforesaid (1780); Answers for the Incorporation of Master Shoemakers in and about Edinburgh. To the Bill of Suspension and Liberation for Peter Arnott, Thomas Marshall and others, Journeymen Shoemakers in and about Edinburgh (1798); Replies for Peter Arnott, One of the Master Shoemakers, and Thomas Marshall, James Duncan, Thomas Cuthbertson &c, all Journeymen Shoemakers in and about Edinburgh, Complainers; To the Answers for the Incorporation of Master Shoemakers in and about Edinburgh, Respondent (1798); An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Dispute between the Masters and journeymen Printers, exemplified in the Trial at large with remarks thereupon and the speeches of Messrs Knapp, Raine and Hovell, both in the Trail and at the time of passing sentence; together with those of the counsel for the prosecution; with notes and illustrations upon the whole. Published for the Benefit of the Men in Confinement (1799); An Abstract of An Act to prevent unlawful combinations amongst journeymen to raise wages &c (1799); A Full and Accurate Report of the Proceedings of the Petitioners against a Bill intituled A Bill to Prevent Unlawful Combinations of Workmen ; with the speeches of Lord Holland and of Counsel; and a Full Abstract of the Act; submitted to the serious considerations of all Journeymen, Workmen and others throughout the Kingdom. By One of the Petitioners (1800) Volume 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 February 1824, on moving for a Committee on the State of the Law, respecting Combinations of Workmen, the Emigration of Artizans, and Exportation of Machinery. Lists of the Committee of the House of Commons, of the Witnesses examined and an Address to the Working People by George White, Clerk to the Honourable Committee. (1824?); F(rancis); P(lace); , Observations on Mr Huskisson's Speech on the Laws Relating to Combinations of Workmen (1825); Sixth Address to the Mechanics, Artisans and Labourers of the Manufacturing Towns and Villages of Great Britain by the Committee of Woolcombers' and Stuff-Weavers Association in the Town and Neighbourhood of Bradford. (1825); John Tester, History of the commencement, progress, and termination of the Bradford contest, with a statement of the income and expenditure of the Union Association of Wool-combers and Stuff-weavers, from June 6th, 1825, to April 1st, 1826 (1826); Statement by the Proprietors of Cotton Works in Glasgow and Vicinity; Case of the Operative Cotton-Spinners, in answer to that Statement: Reply by the Proprietors and an Introduction and Appendix (1825); Narrative of the Late Occurrences at the Cotton Mills in Glasgow: in Answer to the Statement of these Occurrences by the Proprietors (1825); A Voice from the Coal Mines; or a Plain Statement of the Various Grievances of the Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear; Address to the Coal Owners - their Head Agents - and a sympathizing Public, by the Colliers of the United Association of Durham and Northumberland (1825); Address from the Glasgow Weavers Volume 3: 1826-1839 These years saw a explosion of trade union activity with attempts to create nationwide organisations among cotton spinners. John Doherty was at the forefront of these as he was in the creation of the National Association for the Protection of Labour in 1830. Others came under the influence of Owenite ideas and sought to make trade unions the basis for a co-operative alternative to the emerging capitalist systems of production. Disputes proliferated, but so too did debates about the kind of economy and kind of society that industrial change was creating. These are well-illustrated in accounts from both employers and their supporters and trade unions and their sympathisers. Articles of the Friendly Society of Journeymen Bookbinders of London and Westminster, agreed upon at a General Meeting of the Lodges, April 21st 1828 (1828); Address of the Committee of Associated Spinners in Glasgow to their Fellow-Tradesmen in Scotland and Ireland, on the Propriety of more effectually assisting the Spinners of Manchester, in their present important struggle (1829); A Report of the Proceedings of a Delegate Meeting of the Operative Spinners of England, Ireland and Scotland, Assembled at Ramsey, Isle of Man, on Saturday, December 5, 1829 and three following days (1829); 'Trade Unions', United Trades' Cooperative Journal (1830); 'General Union', United Trades' Cooperative Journal (1830); 'National Association', United Trades' Cooperative Journal (1830); A Reply of the Journeymen Bookbinders to Remarks on a Memorial Addressed to their Employers, on the effects of a Machine, introduced to supersede manual labour, as appeared in a work published by the Society for the Diffusion of useful knowledge, with observations on the influence of Machinery on the Working Classes in General (1831); 'An Address to the Journeymen Turners in and Around Glasgow', Herald to the Trades' Advocate (1831); 'Meeting of the Operative Turners of Glasgow', Herald to the Trades' Advocate (1831); Lecture delivered by G. Kerr, Member of Trades' Committee of Greenock in Cartsdyke Secession Church, 26 December 1832, on the Nature and Advantages of Trades' Unions. Respectfully dedicated to the Working Classes (1831); A Brief History of the Proceedings of the Operative Builders' Trades Unions in Manchester and the consequent Turn-out of the Journeymen Masons, Bricklayers, Joiners, Slaters and other Trades, with copies of Letters, Placards, Union Rules and Other Particulars (1833); An Impartial Statement of the proceedings of the members of the Trades Union Societies, and of the Steps taken in consequence by the Master Tradesmen of Liverpool with the correspondence between the Parties and other Particulars (1833); Statement of the Master Builders of the Metropolis in Explanation of the differences between them and their Workmen respecting the Trades' Unions (1834); To the Operative Mechanics. The Dispute between the Mechanics and their Employers placed in its True Light. By a Friend of Both Parties (1834); Rules and Regulations of the Grand National Consolidated Trades' Union of Great Britain and Ireland; instituted for then purpose of the more effectually enabling the Working Classes to secure, protect, and establish the Rights of Industry (1834); Trades' Triumphant or Unions' Jubilee!! A Plan for the Consolidation of Popular Power, and Restoring to the People their long lost Rights (1834?); Report of the Trade Council of the London Union of Compositors, on the Mode of Working on the Times Newspaper, with regulations for Casual Employment and Establishment Hours, adopted at Special General Meetings held on the 15th and 22nd of September 1835, in the theatre of The London Mechanics Institute (1835); Rules and Orders to be observed by the Members of the Journeymen Carpenters' and Joiners' Society in Manchester (Manchester, 1835); The Victims of Whiggery; being a Statement of the persecutions Experienced by the Dorchester Labourers; their Trial, Banishment, &c, &c. Also Reflections upon the present system of Transportation; with an account of Van Dieman's Land, its customs, laws, climate, produce, and Inhabitants. (Dedicated (without permission) to Lords Melbourne, Grey, Russell, Brougham, and Judge Williams) by George Loveless, One of the Dorchester Labourers (1837); An Inquiry into the Origin, Progress, and Results of the Strike of Operative Cotton Spinners of Preston, from October 1836 to February 1837, read at Liverpool, before the Statistical Section of the British Association, September 14, 1837. By Henry Ashworth (1838); A Vindication of the Principles, Objects, and Tendencies of Trades Unions, or Associations of the Working Classes. By a Unionist. (1838); An Address from the London Trades' Committee, appointed to watch the Parliamentary Inquiry into Combinations, to the Working Classes (1838) Volume 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 and Ireland (1853); 'Strikes and Strike Allowance', Flint Glass Makers' Magazine (1854); Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Address of the Executive Council ... to their fellow workmen throughout the United Kingdom and British Colonies (1855); Masters and Workmen. Evidence of Sidney Smith, Secretary of the Association of Employers of Operative Engineers, and William Newton, Member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. Given before a Select Committee of the House of Commons on the cause of strikes and the desirability of establishing Equitable Councils of Conciliation, with Appendices and an Analysis of the evidence, by William Newton (1856); A Defence of Trades Unions in General and the Sunderland Shipwrights' Society in Particular. Address to the Clergy and all who oppose such Unions. Being a Reply to the Rev. D.R. Falconer, Curate of Bishopwearmouth. By an Operative Shipwright (1857); Balance Sheet of the Strike and Lock-out of the London Building Trades from July 24th1859 to May 1st 1860 (1860); Trades Unions and Strikes: Their Philosophy and Intention by T J Dunning, Secretary of the London Consolidated Society of Bookbinders (1860); John Bedford Leno, An Essay on the Nine Hours' Movement (1860?); Anon., Trades-Unions, Strikes and Lockouts (1860); London Operative Bricklayers' Society. Report and Balance Sheet of the Dispute relating to an attempt to introduce a System of Hiring and Paying by the Hour (1861); George Potter, The Labour Question. An Address to Capitalists, and Employers, of the Building Trades, being a few Reasons in behalf of a Reduction of the Hours of Labour, &c. (1861); 'The Sheffield Trade Outrages', The Bookbinders' Trade Circular (1862); Transactions and Results of the National Association of Coal, Lime and Iron-Stone Miners of Great Britain, held at Leeds, November 9, 10,11, 12, 13, and 14, 1863 (1863); 'To the Workmen of France from the Working-Men of England', Operative Bricklayers' Society's Trade Circular (1864)

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'If printed collections of this kind act as an indicator of the health of the field of scholarship they serve, then the twenty-first century is a good time to pursue the history of trade unionism.' Labour History Review

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