W Hamish Fraser

British Trade Unions, 1707-1918, Part I, Volume 1

1707-1800

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781138751279
• ISBN-10: 1138751278
• Artikelnr.: 75426967

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Volume 1: 1707-1800 By the King., a Proclamation, for putting into
Execution the Laws against Unlawful Clubs and Combinations, and for
Preventing Tumults and Riotous Assemblies, and for the more speedy and
effectual Punishing of Rioters (1717); The Case of the Journeymen Taylors
and Journeymen Staymakers, Residing within the Cities of London and
Westminster, and Weekly Bills of Mortality (1721); The Case of the Master
Taylors residing within the Cities of London and Westminster, in relation
to the Great Abuses committed by their Journeymen (1721); An Abstract of
the Master-Taylors Bill before the Honourable House of Commons; with the
Journeymen's Observation in each clause of the said Bill (1721); Answers
for William Clark Deacon of the Taylors in Edinburgh to the Petition of
Patrick McDuff Journeyman Taylor in the Canongate (1728); The Worsted
Small-Ware Weavers. Apology together with all their Articles, which either
concern their Society or Trade. To which is added, A Farewell Discourse,
made by their first Chair-Man. All faithfully collected by Timothy Shuttle
(1756); A Letter to a Friend Occasioned by the Late Disputes betwixt the
Check-Makers of Manchester and Their Weavers; and the Checkmakers Ill-Usage
of the Author (1759); Memorial for the Colliers of Scotland (1762);
Information for the Magistrates and Procurator fiscal of the bailie-court
of Aberdeen, pursuers against the journeymen-woolcombers in Aberdeen,
defenders (1762); Articles of Continuation of the Society of Journeymen
Taylors in Glasgow (1775); An Impartial Representation of the Case of the
Poor Cotton Spinners of Lancashire, &c with a Mode Proposed to the
Legislature for their Relief, and an Humble Petition to His Majesty in
their Behalf (1780); To the Nobility, Gentry, Magistrates, and
Representatives in Parliament, of every County and Town in Great Britain;
more especially those of the town and country of Leicester. The Humble
Petition of the Poor Spinners, which on every moderate calculations
consists of Eighteen thousand, Five Hundred, employed in the Town and
County aforesaid (1780); Answers for the Incorporation of Master Shoemakers
in and about Edinburgh. To the Bill of Suspension and Liberation for Peter
Arnott, Thomas Marshall and others, Journeymen Shoemakers in and about
Edinburgh (1798); Replies for Peter Arnott, One of the Master Shoemakers,
and Thomas Marshall, James Duncan, Thomas Cuthbertson &c, all Journeymen
Shoemakers in and about Edinburgh, Complainers; To the Answers for the
Incorporation of Master Shoemakers in and about Edinburgh, Respondent
(1798); An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Dispute between the
Masters and journeymen Printers, exemplified in the Trial at large with
remarks thereupon and the speeches of Messrs Knapp, Raine and Hovell, both
in the Trail and at the time of passing sentence; together with those of
the counsel for the prosecution; with notes and illustrations upon the
whole. Published for the Benefit of the Men in Confinement (1799); An
Abstract of An Act to prevent unlawful combinations amongst journeymen to
raise wages &c (1799); A Full and Accurate Report of the Proceedings of the
Petitioners against a Bill intituled A Bill to Prevent Unlawful
Combinations of Workmen; with the speeches of Lord Holland and of Counsel;
and a Full Abstract of the Act; submitted to the serious considerations of
all Journeymen, Workmen and others throughout the Kingdom. By One of the
Petitioners (1800)