Labour Legislation Labour Movements And Labour Leaders

Author : George Howell
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ISBN 13 : 9781331310419
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Labour Legislation, Labour Movements and Labour Leaders (Classic Reprint) written by George Howell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Labour Legislation, Labour Movements and Labour Leaders AS references are frequently made, especially during election times, to the respective political parties by whom legislation for labour was carried, it was often suggested to me that I should tell the story as I knew the facts. But I always refused because the whole truth cannot be told from a party point of view. I had, nevertheless, resolved to tell the story from an independent standpoint as early as 1880, but the work was deferred for various reasons until I had more leisure. The story of Labour's struggles, its victories and defeats; the fierce contests which for centuries were waged against it to keep it in subjection; and its resistance from time to time, involving suffering, privation, prosecution, and persecution required to be told, for it finds no place in the so-called "Histories of England." For half a century my lot has been cast amid those struggles; and I have, as best I could, contributed to the amelioration of the hard conditions under which working men still suffered fifty years ago, to emancipate themselves from which they fought and strove against the oppressive forces opposed to them. The following work is an attempt to trace progressive legislation from the date of the first repeal of the Combination Laws in 1824 to the present time. In order to do so it was necessary to indicate generally, but clearly, the nature of the laws adverse to labour as they existed at the close of the eighteenth and during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.