Growth of Early Trade Unions - Explain why Early trade unions emerged/were formed

Question 1

Economic

Answer 1

• Beginning of trade depression (late 1820s/early 1830s) = protect jobs and wages

Question 2

Social

Answer 2

• Attempts to form industrial cooperatives e.g. Derby silk throwers
• Local strikes broken by black legs i.e. need to from national unions

Question 3

Political

Answer 3

• Repeal of the Combination LAws 1824/5
• Attempts to form nationwide unions 129-33 e.g. NAPL and GNCTU
• National Union of Cotton Spinners (1829) = first attempt at a national union
• Influence and ideas of Robert Owen i.e. Trade Unionism and Cooperatives
• Cooperative movement e.g. London Cooperative Society
• GNCTU = ultimate aim was to gain control of the Govt