Author: Nicholas MonsarratPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A Fair Day's Work
Author: Nicholas MonsarratA Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work?
Author: Sheila BlackburnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317188284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance. Although difficult to define, sweating, according to a select committee established to investigate the issue, was characterised by long hours, poor working conditions and above all by low pay. By the beginning of the twentieth century the government estimated that up to a third of the British workforce could be classed as sweated labour, and for the first time in a century began to think about introducing legislation to address the problem. Whilst historians have written much on unemployment, poverty relief and other such related social and industrial issues, relatively little work has been done on the causes, extent and character of sweated labour. That work which has been done has tended to focus on the tailoring trades in London and Leeds, and fails to give a broad overview of the phenomenon and how it developed and changed over time. In contrast, this volume adopts a broad national and long-run approach, providing a more holistic understanding of the subject. Rejecting the argument that sweating was merely a London or gender related problem, it paints a picture of a widespread and constantly shifting pattern of sweated labour across the country, that was to eventually persuade the government to introduce legislation in the form of the 1909 Trades Board Act. It was this act, intended to combat sweated labour, which was to form the cornerstone of low pay legislation, and the barrier to the introduction of a minimum wage, for the next 90 years.
A Fair Day's Work
Author: Nicholas MonsarratPublisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755143442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Liverpool Docks, on Merseyside - a senseless strike threatens to delay the departure of an ocean liner. As the last of the passengers come aboard, the drama increases with the threatened walk-out of the stewards. Below deck, agitation and unrest mount as the tide water rises and the vital hour for sailing approaches.
A Fair Day's Work
Author: Elisabeth MichielsensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952905417
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Iron Age
Author: Plumbing Estimates and Contracts
Author: John Joseph CosgrovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plumbing
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Works of John Ruskin: "A Joy for Ever" and two paths with letters on the Oxford Museum and various addresses, 1856-1860
Author: John RuskinThe World's Work
Author: Walter Hines PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
A history of our time.
Parliamentary Debates
Author: Australia. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
A Fair Day's Work for a Fair Day's Pay
Author: American Management AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description