Early British labour movements in relation to family needs

Eileen Yeo, J. Kok (Editor)

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    Abstract

    Eileen Janes Yeo's brief chapter on 'Early British Labour Movements in Relation to Family Need' moves masterfully across the 19th century identifying institutions and practices that working people created for themselves to respond to their own needs for dignity, security, and pleasure. In looking at institutions like co-operative stores she counters the tendency of some of the other articles to treat unions as if they were foreign to the workers who join them or 'risks' that had to be rationally assessed.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRebellious families: household strategies and collective action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    Place of PublicationNew York, USA
    Publication statusPublished - 2002

    Keywords

    • trade unions
    • working class history
    • labour movement
    • 19th century
    • british history

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