ABSTRACT
Drawing from a variety of libraries and archives, this collection brings together material to illustrate the history of the development of trade unionism and industrial relations. It spans the period from the early journeymen's trade societies as they emerged in the 18th-Century through to the end of the First World War. Part I Volume 1 looks at 1707-1800.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
The Case of the Master Taylors residing within the Cities of London and Westrinster, in relation to the Great Abuses committed by their Journeymen.
Humbly Offer’d to the Consideration of Parliament.
part |251 pages
The Case of the Journeymen Taylors, and Journeymen Staymakers, Residing Within the Cities of London and Westminster, and Weekly Bills of Mortality.
chapter |7 pages
To the Nobility, Gentry, Magistrates, and Representatives in Parliament, of every County and Town in Great-Britain; more especially those of the Town and County of Leicester.
The Humble Petition of the PoorSpinners, which on a very moderate?Calculation consists of EighteenThousand, Five Hundred, employed?in the Town and County aforesaid.
