The Trade Union Movement

Trade Unionists
William Abraham	Harry Gosling
William Adamson	James Keir Hardie
Robert Applegarth	Frederic Harrison
Joseph Arch	Vernon Hartshorn
George Barnes	Arthur Henderson
Richard Bell	John Hodge
Annie Besant	George Howell
Ernest Bevin	John Knight
Clementina Black	James Larkin
Margaret Bondfield	Susan Lawrence
Henry Broadhurst	Mary Macarthur
John Burns	Alexander Macdonald
Thomas Burt	John Maclean
Walter Citrine	Tom Mann
Joseph Clynes	Hannah Mitchell
James Connolly	Benjamin Pickard
Selina Cooper	George Potter
William Crawford	Emanuel Shinwell
Will Crooks	Robert Smillie
John Doherty	Ben Tillett
Enoch Edwards	Jimmy Thomas
Charles Fenwick	Will Thorne
Isabella Ford	Stephen Walsh
Mary Gawthorpe	John Wilson

 

The Post-War Compromise

The British High Tide

 

Trade Unions

National Union of Mineworkers

National Union of Agricultural Workers

Association of Cotton Spinners

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Amalgamated Society of Engineers

National Union of Gasworkers & General Labourers

National Union of Railwaymen

Transport and General Workers Union

 

Trade Union & Political Legislation

1799 & 1800 Combination Acts

1817 Gagging Acts

1819 Six Acts

1824 Repeal of Combination Acts

1825 Combination Act

1867 Masters & Servants Act

1871 Trade Union Act

1875 Conspiracy & Protection of Property Act

1880 Employer's Liability Act

1906 Trades Disputes Act

1913 Trade Union Act

1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act

 

Important Events & Issues
The Sheffield Outrages	Royal Commission on Unions
Trade Union Congress	The Matchgirls' Strike
Gas Workers & the 8-Hour Day	London Dockers' Strike
Bloody Sunday	The 1926 General Strike

 

Labour Journals & Newspapers
Poor Man's Guardian	The Republican
Manchester Chronicle	The Black Dwarf
The Northern Star	The Red Republican
Justice	The Clarion
The Labour Elector	The Commonweal
The Bee-Hive	The Workers' Dreadnought
The New Statesman	The Daily Herald
Lansbury's Labour Weekly	Tribune