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Oct 15, 2024 · Can be used for a series of lessons exploring the origins of Trade Unions and how the impact society today (linking with rights and responsibilities). Series of Worksheet forming a large Work Booklet of Classroom-Ready Activities. Suitable for KS4 and KS3 Humanities Students (Focus Citizenship).
These fun and engaging lessons have been designed to teach a unit on the origins of the trade union movement in Britain and the founding of the Labour Party. Each lesson includes a PowerPoint and Worksheet, which have also been converted to PDF just in case you haven’t got office.
Sep 2, 2023 · These fun and engaging lessons have been designed to teach a unit on the origins of the trade union movement in Britain and the founding of the Labour Party. Each lesson includes a PowerPoint and Worksheet, which have also been converted to PDF just in case you haven't got office.
Timeline of trade union history from the Combination Acts beginning in 1799 through to the early years of the 21st century
- The Rise of The Machines
- Poor Working Conditions
- The Formation of Trade Unions
- Restriction & Repression
- Government Labour Reforms
From the second half of the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution swept through Britain. Machines, especially steam-powered machines, helped make many factories fully mechanised and capable of mass-producing goods such as tools and textiles. New jobs were created, but these usually involved repetitive tasks and were ruled by the clock. Previously...
The machines in factories had many moving parts, and these caused injuries to operators. Breakages were dangerous as pieces flew across the factory floor like bullets. Flying spindles were a particularly nasty possibility in textile mills. The atmosphere in a mill was deliberately kept damp to ensure the cotton threads stayed strong and supple. Man...
The poor conditions of many workplaces and the atmosphere of suspicion from employers that workers could always do more helped form the trade union movement in the late 18th century. Unions were often extensions of the craft guilds that had been in existence since the Middle Ages, which is why many of the early unions represented specialised worker...
Many business owners did not like the idea of workers getting together to limit their profits. "Managers attacked these organizations, breaking them whenever and however possible" (Horn, 62). If a union or worker's organisation could not be disbanded, then employers took aim at individuals. Workers who joined a union were often subject to prejudice...
Eventually, governments did what trade unions had struggled to achieve, and from the 1830s, the situation for workers in factories and mines, including for children, began to slowly improve. Several acts of Parliament were passed from 1833 to try, although not always successfully, to limit employers' exploitation of their workforce and lay down min...
- Mark Cartwright
The IER’s Professor Keith Ewing and Lord John Hendy trace the key events in a long history of attempts to curb the power and free association of working people and their trade unions. Capitalism has aggregated capital and exploited labour to make profit from that capital. Wherever workers were engaged to work together for an employer the ...
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