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Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind: The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820–1914(Perspectives in Economic and Social History)

Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind: The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820–1914(Perspectives in Economic and Social History)


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Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the 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 fully free to consume as they chose. These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deductions were experienced by different groups in British society, arguing that it was far more common than has previously been acknowledged. This analysis brings to light issues of class and gender; the discourse of free trade, popular politics and protest; the development of the trade union movement; and the use of the legal system as an instrument for bringing about social and legal change.

Table of Contents:
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

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

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'Frank is very good on the nuts and bolts of the legislative process, documenting the different arguments and rhetorical strategies adopted by the parties concerned and tracing their influence on the final legislation. He is equally attentive to the ways in which the legal system often failed to prevent the abuse of workers, whether through a partisan refusal on the part of magistrates to convict their social peers (or to impose minimal punishments where convictions were unavoidable), or through narrow interpretations of the relevant statutes on the part of the higher courts.' - Mike Sanders, University of Manchester, Victorian Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781138121065
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 294
  • Sub Title: The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820–1914
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1138121061
  • Publisher Date: 07 Nov 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
  • Weight: 570 gr


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