Christopher Frank

Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind

The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite the expansion of consumer culture in the eighteenth century onwards, and 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 free to consume as they chose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781138121065
• ISBN-10: 1138121061
• Artikelnr.: 58266600

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations
Table of truck and related statutes
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Anti-truck prosecution societies and the campaign against truck,
1831-1860
2 New model unions and the effort to secure anti-truck legislation,
1863-1871
3 Charles Bradlaugh and the 1887 Truck Act
4 Fines, deductions from wages and the passage of the 1896 Truck Act
5 The factory inspectorate and the enforcement of the Truck Acts, 1896-1906
6 The factory inspectorate, organized labour, and the debate over fines and
deductions from wages, 1906-1914
Bibliography
Index