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

ISBN-13: 9780199268894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str.

Mark Curthoys; M. C. Curthoys

Opis

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.

Recenzje

...a valuable contribution to our understanding of the evolution of trade union legislation and the character of the mid-Victorian state.