Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind: The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820-1914

ISBN-13: 9781032086408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 306 str.

Christopher Frank

Opis

Despite the expansion of consumer culture in the eighteenth century onwards, and developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not free to consume as they chose.

Spis treści

List of abbreviations

Table of truck and related statutes

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Anti-truck prosecution societies and the campaign against truck, 1831–1860

2 New model unions and the effort to secure anti-truck legislation, 1863–1871

3 Charles Bradlaugh and the 1887 Truck Act

4 Fines, deductions from wages and the passage of the 1896 Truck Act

5 The factory inspectorate and the enforcement of the Truck Acts, 1896–1906

6 The factory inspectorate, organized labour, and the debate over fines and deductions from wages, 1906–1914

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Christopher Frank is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada.