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Edexcel History 2. Industrialisation, Protest, and Unionism

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The tendency of trade depressions or slumps to repeat over time in cycles
Cyclical Depression
The percentage of the population in towns and cities with over 20,000 people who were born elsewhere by 1851
50%+
A company established in 1845 by Fergus O'Connor to help working class people set up communities like Connorville and Charterville allowing them to qualify to vote, wound up by Parliament in 1851
Chartist Cooperative Land Company
An 1832 bill for factory reform by Michael Sadler held up till the end of the parliamentary session forcing its withdrawal, due to Parliament's insisting on a special committee report on the subject
Sadler's Bill
The years during which Britain was at war with France (excluding the Peace of Amiens)
1793 to 1815
The notion that men and women occupied fundamentally different roles in society
Separate Spheres
A paper workers had to sign renouncing trade unions
The Document
An 1842 act that banned females, and children under 10 from working underground
Mines Act
An act that limited working hours to 6.00am to 6.00pm for women and young people, and mandated that work stops at 2.00pm on Saturday
1850 Factory Act
The centralisation of production in one establishment increasingly via mechanisation, beginning in the cotton and iron industries
Factory System
An 1871 act passed alongside the Trade Union Act that made picketing illegal, thus complicating the ability to strike successfully
Criminal Law Amendment Act
A 1797 naval mutiny on the Thames desiring better pay, conditions, and peace with France, ultimately defeated
Nore Mutiny
A paternalistic Tory, and campaigner from Leeds, a key mover behind the Ten Hour Movement and writer of Yorkshire Slavery
Richard Oastler (1789 - 1861)
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
Minority Report
The ratio by which friendly societies outnumbered trade unions by 1870
4 to 1
An 1825 act that outlawed combinations for anything other than wage increases or working hours and re-imposed sanctions for methods of persuading workers away from work
Combination of Workers Act
A series of explosions and murders by militant trade unionists in Sheffield in 1866 particularly by William Broadhead, who paid two workmen £5 to murder an employer for employing more apprentices (practically cheap labour)
Sheffield Outrages
The increase in the number of spinning factories from 1770 to 1790
20 to 150
An 1823 act that made breach of contract by workers against employers a criminal offence punishable by prison, but by employers against workers a civil offence
Master and Servant Act
Study which relates the cooperative movements social equality with economic practices
Cooperative Economics
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