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Mark Curthoys, "Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s"

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Mark Curthoys, "Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s"

Mark Curthoys, "Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s"
Publisher: OUP | 2004 | ISBN: 0199268894 | English | PDF | 295 pages | 1.5 Mb

This book explains why governments decided to make trade unions legal, and protect strikers from the criminal law. Drawing on previously unused source material, Curthoys brings to light some of the workings of the nineteenth-century state.


Mark Curthoys, "Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s"