Industrial Revolution

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trade union

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Trade Union
Tried to improve working condition via trade union

before industrial revolution → some skilled workers organisations existed
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1799
Organisation of trade union → banned under *Combination* ***acts***

→ illegal for workers to join together to fight for better pay and conditions
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1824
Acts repealed

workers used strikes and pickets to try win justice
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4
1825
British Government outlawed tactics
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1820s overall
trade unionism grew rapidly in general → despite restainance

ESPECIALLY in textile industry
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6
1830s
British trade union

concerned not only for immediate issue but ***fundamentally*** changing society

unionist worked to form cooperative society

running own buis → eventually no need for capalist who owned factory
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trade union - aus
not highly industrialised country

inheritied trade union from britian
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8
1840s
aus union emerged
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1860s - 1880s
unionism became stronger
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1890s
huge strikes

employers tried to win gains won by Aus workers

strikes defeated

aus still had one of the highest levels of trade unionism ship globally
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1850s
trade unions succeeded winning eight hr working day for skilled tradesmen

other working → incluing women and children

→ worked 10 hrs or more a day for lower wages

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