Frank Workers, Unions and Truck Wages in British Society

The Fight for Real Wages, 1820-1986
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-30957-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards, and the 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 fully free to consume as they chose.

These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deductions were experienced by different groups in British society, arguing that it was far more common than has previously been acknowledged. This analysis brings to light issues of class and gender, the discourse of free trade, popular politics and protest, the development of the trade union movement, and the use of the legal system as an instrument for bringing about social and legal change.

It will be of great interest to scholars of social history, economic history, gender history, labour history, and historians of the law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1: Truck and Frame Rents in the early 19th century and the Passage of the 1831 Truck Act 2: Trade Unions, Chartists, and the Struggle Against Truck 3: Anti-Truck Prosecutions Societies, 1842-1855 4: Truck and the Arrestment of Wages in Scotland, 1837-1871 5: The Trade Union Congress and the Parliamentary Commission of 1871 5: The Trade Union Congress and the Parliamentary Commission of 1871 6: Charles Bradlaugh, the Factory Inspectorate, and Workplace Fines and Deductions, 1873-1896 7: Female Factory Inspectors, the Women’s Trade Union League, and the Struggle Against Workplace Fines, 1893-1923 Chapter 8: New Methods of Payment and the Dismantling of the Truck Acts, 1925-1986 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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