TRADE UNION LAW

Abstract

Although workers' organisations operated in the early nineteenth century and “…. workers in every trade were becoming very much alive to the necessity for defending their standards”, nevertheless “The first twenty years of the nineteenth century, witnessed a legal persecution of trade unionists as rebels and revolutionists”. The beginnings of modern trade unionism may be traced to about 1850 where a number of craft unions, as for example, miners' and engineering unions, were successful in establishing themselves, and slowly building up their financial resources and thus acquiring sufficient strength to enable them to bargain on almost equal terms with the employer.

Citation

Carby‐Hall, J. (1990), "TRADE UNION LAW", Managerial Law, Vol. 32 No. 2, pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022443