Edexcel History 2. Industrialisation, Protest, and Unionism

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A case that saw trade unions not afforded the same protection of their funds from fraudulent members as friendly societies

The year that the Bank of England was founded

An early trade union founded in 1834 by a conference in London headed by Robert Owen espousing cooperation that collapsed in 1834 under disagreements, failed strikes, the case of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and a strong reaction against it

The form in which wages were frequently paid

The number of cooperative shops by 1863

Those beliefs and activities as promoted by Robert Owen

The percentage of Lancashire cotton firms that employed over 1,000 workers in 1841

A paternalistic Tory MP who opposed parliamentary reform but led the call within Parliament for factory reform - a position taken up by John Fielden after he left the Commons - chairing the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes

An 1858 act that abolished the Board of Health, transferring its functions to a new Local Government Act Office and to a new medical department of the Privy Council

A machine invented in 1779 by Samuel Crompton, originally hand operated but by the 1790's water or steam powered, with up to 400 spindles effectively killing the domestic spinning industry by 1800

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A series of letters by Richard Oastler to the Leeds Mercury in 1830 which was unabashedly critical of the working conditions for children in Worsted Mills in Bradford

A paper workers had to sign renouncing trade unions

A movement calling for a maximum ten hour day, beginning in Yorkshire, led by paternalistic Tories Richard Oastler, Michael Sadler, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper

Historians who have emphasised the way in which the industrial revolution damaged lives and people's opportunities

The process whereby machinery replaced manual production processes

An 1869 report arising from the 1867-69 royal commission signed by three commissioners including junta nominee Frederic Harrison, recommending full legalisation of trade unions, repeal of criminal sections of the 1825 Combination of Workmen Act, and security of funds from fraud

Three acts, from 1852, 1854, and 1857 that set up a system of public cemeteries

A mill owner, and critic of the Luddites who was assassinated in Huddersfield in 1812 under the leadership of George Mellor

An owner or manager of industrial and/or business enterprise whose initiatives helps to increase productivity and profit

An act for cotton mills and factories made by Sir Robert Peel the elder on the instigating of Robert Owen in 1815, evidence for which was gathered by a select committee in 1816 chaired by Peel, which forbade employment of children under 9, forbade night working, and limited children's working hours to 12 hours a day