ABSTRACT
The unofficial movement of events in the woollen and worsted trades has been to some extent similar, but in this case the degree of Trade Union organization and collective bargaining reached before the war was far less, and the demands made upon the industry during the war greater and productive of greater changes. By far the greatest part of the monograph deals directly with the munitions industries, in which the most important developments of the workshop movement took place during the war period. But, at the same time, analogous movements were proceeding in other industries, although they attracted nothing like the same degree of public attention, and were on quite so considerable a scale. An impetus was given to the movement for workshop organization, and, in a number of areas, attempts were made both by the spinning and by the manufacturing trades to install the shop steward system.
