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G. D. H. Cole. Attempts at General Union.

Biblioteca / 1950-1959

George D. H. Cole. Attempts at General Union. A Study in British Trade Union History, 1818-1834.  

Londres: Macmillan, 1953.

viii, 218 páginas.

Este estudio se publicó por primera vez en 1939, en la International Review for Social History, revista del Instituto Internacional de Historia Social, con sede en Ámsterdam. Para esta edición se realizaron algunas correcciones.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I – INTRODUCTION

II – THE BEGINNINGS — THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY AND THE PHILANTHROPIC HERCULES

III – THE SPINNERS’ UNION AND THE UNION OF TRADES

IV – THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF LABOUR

V – THE MOVEMENT IN YORKSHIRE — FACTORY SLAVERY

VI – THE YORKSHIRE TRADES’ UNION

VII – SECRECY AND ‘UNLAWFUL OATHS’

VIII – THE SHORT TIME MOVEMENT AND THE FACTORY ACT OF 1833

IX – THE STRUGGLE IN YORKSHIRE, 1833

X – THE GRAND MORAL UNION OF THE PRODUCTIVE CLASSES

XI – THE END OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF LABOUR

XII – THE BUILDERS’ UNION

XIII – THE SOCIETY FOR NATIONAL REGENERATION

XIV – THE DERBY TURN-OUT

XV – THE GRAND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATED TRADES UNION

XVI – THE TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS AND THE ABOLITION OF THE OATH

XVII – THE STRUGGLE IN THE NORTH

XVIII – THE FALL OF THE GRAND NATIONAL TRADES UNION — THE AFTERMATH

APPENDICES

1 – Resolutions of the Philanthropic Society, 1818

2 – Articles of the Philanthropic Hercules, 1818

3 – Rules of the National Association for the Protection of Labour, 1830

4 – Membership of the National Association for the Protection of Labour

5 – Initiation Ceremony, enacted on the Reception of Members into the Woolcombers’ Union

6 – Resolutions of the Society for Promoting National Regeneration

7 – Constitution of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union

8 – Resolutions of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union

9 – Dissolution of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union and Formation of the British and Foreign Consolidated Association of Industry, Humanity and Knowledge