TRAADE UNIONS

Question 1

grand national consolidation trade unions

Answer 1

• industrial revolution = more workers in factories
• combinations act 1800
• repeal of the act 1824
• combination act again 1825
• 1833 GNTCU

Question 2

tollpuddle martyrs - key people

Answer 2

• george loveless = leader

Question 3

key events

Answer 3

• six farm labours got wages cut = struggle to pay for families
• 1833 hey set up a union THE FRIENDLY SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURS = swear a secret oath to the support of the union = owners cut wages more instead of increasing them
• old naval war = ban the secret oaths
• labours arrested and sent to austrailia
• riots and petitions with 200,000 signatures the gove allow them to return home in 1838

Question 4

matchstick girls

Answer 4

works at the factories in london were poorly paid and suffered serious health injuries =strike in 1888
- annie besant

Question 5

dockers strike

Answer 5

1889
- 12,000 dockers competed for 5,000 jobs = down wages
- august 1889 strike until they were paid 6 pence and hour and given shifts of minimum 4 hrs
- pickets stopped people from reaching ships
- 30,000 donated to the dockers by Australia
- september deeds were met

Question 6

significance

Answer 6

• millitaant violence works best
• 1899 2 million people in trade unions
• labour part in 1893