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- catalog abstract ""After the repeal of the Combination Acts in the 1820s, collective labour enjoyed limited freedoms. When that regime collapsed under judicial challenge during the 1860s, governments were obliged to devise a new legal frameworks for trade unions and strikes. This study traces how, in adjudicating between opposing conceptions of 'free trade' and 'free labour', official opinion came to favour an unrestricted freedom to combine, and sought to withdraw the criminal law from industrial relations. It also reveals the impact upon policy-makers of the contemporary assaults upon classical political economy, and of the historicized critiques of labour law propounded by Liberal writers. Drawing upon previously unused governmental sources, this account provides many wider insights into the nature and inner-workings of the mid-Victorian state."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13265118.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""After the repeal of the Combination Acts in the 1820s, collective labour enjoyed limited freedoms. When that regime collapsed under judicial challenge during the 1860s, governments were obliged to devise a new legal frameworks for trade unions and strikes. This study traces how, in adjudicating between opposing conceptions of 'free trade' and 'free labour', official opinion came to favour an unrestricted freedom to combine, and sought to withdraw the criminal law from industrial relations. It also reveals the impact upon policy-makers of the contemporary assaults upon classical political economy, and of the historicized critiques of labour law propounded by Liberal writers. Drawing upon previously unused governmental sources, this account provides many wider insights into the nature and inner-workings of the mid-Victorian state."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-271) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- After the Combination Acts -- 'Under sufferance': unions outside the law, 1825-1866 -- Union funds, free labour, and the franchise -- Reconciling unions and the law -- Trade unions legalized -- The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1871 -- The gas stokers' case and the right to strike -- Reforming labour law, 1873-1874 -- 'The workmen's victory'? -- Conclusion: combination and the liberal state.".
- catalog extent "viii, 284 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199268894".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford historical monographs".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "331.88094109034 21".
- catalog subject "KD3050 .C87x 2004".
- catalog subject "Labor policy Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Law and legislation Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Law and legislation Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Strikes and lockouts Law and legislation Great Britain History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- After the Combination Acts -- 'Under sufferance': unions outside the law, 1825-1866 -- Union funds, free labour, and the franchise -- Reconciling unions and the law -- Trade unions legalized -- The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1871 -- The gas stokers' case and the right to strike -- Reforming labour law, 1873-1874 -- 'The workmen's victory'? -- Conclusion: combination and the liberal state.".
- catalog title "Governments, labour, and the law in mid-Victorian Britain : the trade union legislation of the 1870s / Mark Curthoys.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".