why trade union increase
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- Created on: 02-11-20 18:40
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- why did unionism increase?
- factory system
- improved working conditions encouraged + allowed trade unions
- repeal of Combination Acts 1824
- laissez faire government
- combination act 1799 (stopping trade unions) repealed
- employers had more power to exploit so encouraged unions
- economic uncertainty
- war with France 1793
- increased unions because economic discontent
- rising food prices made cost of living greater so needed wages to increase
- 1815 corn laws
- war with France 1793
- increased unions because economic discontent
- rising food prices made cost of living greater so needed wages to increase
- war with France 1793
- pop growth - 6mil to 7 million
- war with France 1793
- industrialisation relationship with employer
- factory system
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