Labour movement, the Glossary

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1. 230 relations: Abraham Lincoln, AFL-CIO, Agent provocateur, Agriculture, American and British English spelling differences, Anarchism, Anarcho-syndicalism, Artisan, Australasia, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Australian labour movement, Blanketeers, Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Canadian Labour Congress, Capitalism, Catholic Church and politics, Catholic social teaching, Cato Street Conspiracy, Chartism, Child labour, Christian socialism, Class conflict, Collective bargaining, Combination Act 1799, Common ownership, Communism, Consumers' co-operative, Cooperative, Corn Laws, Corporatism, Council communism, County Durham, Craft unionism, Critique of work, Cutlery, De Leonism, Democracy, Democratic socialism, Derbyshire, Distribution of wealth, Dorset, Economic democracy, Eight-hour day, Electoral district, Elizabethan era, England, Federation of Australia, Francis Place, French Revolution, ... Expand index (180 more) »

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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AFL-CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

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Agent provocateur

An inciting agent is a person who commits, or who acts to entice another person to commit, an illegal or rash act or falsely implicates them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation of, or entice legal action against, the target, or a group they belong to or are perceived to belong to.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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American and British English spelling differences

Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.

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Anarcho-syndicalism

Anarcho-syndicalism is an anarchist organisational model that centres trade unions as a vehicle for class conflict.

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Artisan

An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.

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Australasia

Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.

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Australian labour movement

The Australian labour movement began in the early 19th century and since the late 19th century has included industrial (Australian unions) and political wings (Australian Labor Party).

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Blanketeers

The Blanketeers or Blanket March was a demonstration organised in Manchester in March 1817.

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Cabinet of the United Kingdom

The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the senior decision-making body of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Canadian Labour Congress

The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Catholic Church and politics

The Catholic Church and politics concerns the interplay of Catholicism with religious, and later secular, politics.

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Catholic social teaching (CST) is an area of Catholic doctrine which is concerned with human dignity and the common good in society.

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Cato Street Conspiracy

The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820.

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Chartism

Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in the United Kingdom that erupted from 1838 to 1857 and was strongest in 1839, 1842 and 1848.

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Child labour

Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.

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Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, endorsing socialist economics on the basis of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus.

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Class conflict

In political science, the term class conflict, or class struggle, refers to the political tension and economic antagonism that exist among the social classes of society, because of socioeconomic competition for resources among the social classes, between the rich and the poor.

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Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.

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Combination Act 1799

The Combination Act 1799 (39 Geo. 3. c. 81) titled "An Act to prevent Unlawful Combinations of Workmen", prohibited trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers.

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Common ownership

Common ownership refers to holding the assets of an organization, enterprise or community indivisibly rather than in the names of the individual members or groups of members as common property.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Consumers' co-operative

A consumers' co-operative is an enterprise owned by consumers and managed democratically and that aims at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of its members.

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Cooperative

A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".

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Corn Laws

The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846.

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Corporatism

Corporatism is a political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together on and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests.

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Council communism

Council communism or Councilism is a current of communist thought that emerged in the 1920s.

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County Durham

County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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Craft unionism

Craft unionism refers to a model of trade unionism in which workers are organised based on the particular craft or trade in which they work.

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Critique of work

Critique of work or critique of labour is the critique of, and/or wish to abolish, work as such, and to critique what the critics of works deem wage slavery.

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Cutlery

Cutlery (also referred to as silverware, flatware, or tableware) includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in Western culture.

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De Leonism

De Leonism, also known as Marxism-De Leonism, is a Marxist tendency developed by Curaçaoan-American trade union organizer and Marxist theoretician Daniel De Leon.

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Democracy

Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

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Democratic socialism is a centre-left to left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally planned socialist economy.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Distribution of wealth

The distribution of wealth is a comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a society.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Economic democracy

Economic democracy (sometimes called a democratic economy) is a socioeconomic philosophy that proposes to shift ownership and decision-making power from corporate shareholders and corporate managers (such as a board of directors) to a larger group of public stakeholders that includes workers, consumers, suppliers, communities and the broader public.

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Eight-hour day

The eight-hour day (also known as the 40-hour week movement or the short-time movement) was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses of working time.

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Electoral district

An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, electorate, or (election) precinct, is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislature.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Federation of Australia

The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

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Francis Place

Francis Place (3 November 1771, London – 1 January 1854, London) was an English social reformer described as "a ubiquitous figure in the machinery of radical London.".

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Friendly society

A friendly society (sometimes called a benefit society, mutual aid society, benevolent society, fraternal organization or ROSCA) is a mutual association for the purposes of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking.

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Gagging Acts

The Gagging Acts was the common name for two acts of Parliament passed in 1817 by Conservative Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.

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General Confederation of Labour (France)

The General Confederation of Labour (Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Gordon Riots

The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Gravener Henson

John Gravener Henson, (1785 – 15 November 1852) was a workers' leader from Nottingham, England, and a historian of the framework knitters.

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Guild

A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Hampden Clubs

The Hampden Clubs were political campaigning and debating societies formed in England in the early 19th century as part of the Radical Movement.

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Hatmaking

Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear.

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Henry Hunt (politician)

Henry "Orator" Hunt (6 November 1773 – 13 February 1835) was a British radical speaker and agitator remembered as a pioneer of working-class radicalism and an important influence on the later Chartist movement.

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History of colonialism

independence. The historical phenomenon of colonization is one that stretches around the globe and across time.

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History of the cooperative movement

The history of the cooperative movement concerns the origins and history of cooperatives across the world.

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Holiday

A holiday is a day or other period of time set aside for festivals or recreation.

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Income distribution

In economics, income distribution covers how a country's total GDP is distributed amongst its population.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905.

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Industrialisation

Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.

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International labour law

International labour law is the body of rules spanning public and private international law which concern the rights and duties of employees, employers, trade unions and governments in regulating Work (human activity) and the workplace.

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International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.

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International Workingmen's Association

The International Workingmen's Association (IWA), often called the First International (1864–1876), was an international organisation which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, social democratic, communist and anarchist groups and trade unions that were based on the working class and class struggle.

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Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions

The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) was the largest union federation in Iraq in the first half of the 2000s and, under Decree No.

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Irish Congress of Trade Unions

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (often abbreviated to just Congress or ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trades Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.

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Jacobin (politics)

A Jacobin was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799).

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John Cartwright (political reformer)

John Cartwright (17 September 1740 – 23 September 1824) was an English naval officer, Nottinghamshire militia major and prominent campaigner for parliamentary reform.

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John Gast (activist)

John Gast (1772–1837) was an English shipwright and labour activist, an early trade unionist.

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John Horne Tooke

John Horne Tooke (25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812), known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the surname of his friend William Tooke to his own, was an English clergyman, politician and philologist.

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John Jebb (reformer)

John Jebb (1736–1786) was an English divine, medical doctor, and religious and political reformer.

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John Wilkes

John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier.

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Joseph Gerrald

Joseph Gerrald (9 February 1763 – 16 March 1796) was a political reformer, one of the "Scottish Martyrs".

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Journeyman

A journeyman is a worker, skilled in a given building trade or craft, who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification.

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Labor history

Labor history is a sub-discipline of social history which specializes on the history of the working classes and the labor movement.

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Labor movement in Taiwan

The labor movement in Taiwan did not start until the 1980s, after the end of martial law in Taiwan.

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Labor rights

Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers.

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Labor unions in Japan

Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization.

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Labor unions in the United States

Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations Act.

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Labour economics

Labour economics, or labor economics, seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.

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Labour law

Labour laws (also spelled as labor laws), labour code or employment laws are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government.

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Labour Party

Labour Party or Labor Party is a name used by many political parties.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire (or, from laissez faire) is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations).

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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List of international labor organizations

*Fair Labor Association (FLA) (a non-profit designed to complement existing international and national labor laws).

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List of trade unions in Spain

A list of trade unions in Spain.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Living wage

A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Corresponding Society

The London Corresponding Society (LCS) was a federation of local reading and debating clubs that in the decade following the French Revolution agitated for the democratic reform of the British Parliament.

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London Metropolitan University

London Metropolitan University, commonly known as London Met, is a public research university in London, England.

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Luddite

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns regarding decreased pay for textile workers and a perceived reduction of output quality, and often destroyed the machines in organised raids.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Manchester and Salford Yeomanry

The Manchester and Salford Yeomanry cavalry was a short-lived yeomanry regiment formed in response to social unrest in northern England in 1817.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Massacre of St George's Fields

The Massacre of St George's Fields occurred on 10 May 1768 when government soldiers opened fire on demonstrators that had gathered at St George's Fields, Southwark, in south London.

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Master craftsman

Historically, a master craftsman or master tradesman (sometimes called only master or grandmaster) was a member of a guild.

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Maurice Margarot

Maurice Margarot (1745–1815) is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.

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Mechanization

Mechanization (or mechanisation) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Midlands

The Midlands is the central part of England, bordered by Wales, Northern England, Southern England and the North Sea.

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Mill town

A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, often cotton mills or factories producing textiles.

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Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.

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Mother Jones

Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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National Catholic Welfare Council

The National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC) was the annual meeting of the American Catholic hierarchy and its standing secretariat; it was established in 1919 as the successor to the emergency organization, the National Catholic War Council.

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New Orleans dock workers and unionization

Dockworkers in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century often coordinated their unionization efforts across racial lines.

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New unionism

New unionism is a term used to describe moves to broaden the trade union agenda.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town.

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Nottingham

Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Pamphleteer

A pamphleteer is a historical term used to describe someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (therefore inexpensive) booklets intended for wide circulation.

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Parliament

In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government.

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Penal transportation

Penal transportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.

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Pentrich rising

The Pentrich Rising (also known as the Pentrich Revolution) was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, in the United Kingdom.

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Peterloo Massacre

The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819.

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PM Press

PM Press is an independent publisher, founded in 2007, that specializes in radical literature.

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Political party

A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.

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Political Register

The Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, commonly known as the Political Register, was a weekly London-based newspaper founded by William Cobbett in 1802.

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Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII (Leone XIII; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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Property qualification

A property qualification is a clause or rule by which those without property (land), or those without property of a set appraised value, or those without income of a set value, are not enfranchised to vote in elections, to stand for election, to hold office or from other activities.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.

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Public service

A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community.

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Putting-out system

The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work, like a tailor.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Radicals (UK)

The Radicals were a loose parliamentary political grouping in Great Britain and Ireland in the early to mid-19th century who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.

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Rerum novarum

Rerum novarum (from its incipit, with the direct translation of the Latin meaning "of revolutionary change"), or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891.

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Rights of Man

Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sectoral collective bargaining

Sectoral collective bargaining is an aim of trade unions or labor unions to reach a collective agreement that covers all workers in a sector of the economy, whether they wish to be a part of a union or not.

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Sedition

Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech or organization, that tends toward rebellion against the established order.

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Seditious Meetings Act 1795

The Seditious Meetings Act 1795 (36 Geo. 3. c. 8) was approved by the British Parliament in December 1795; it had as its purpose was to restrict the size of public meetings to fifty persons.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Six Acts

Following the Peterloo Massacre on 16 August 1819, the government of the United Kingdom acted to prevent any future disturbances by the introduction of new legislation, the so-called Six Acts aimed at suppressing any meetings for the purpose of radical reform.

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Slavic languages

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.

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Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Socialist Party is the name of many different/ political parties around the world.

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Society of Gentlemen Supporters of the Bill of Rights

The Society of Gentlemen Supporters of the Bill of Rights was a British pressure group formed on 20 February 1769 to support John Wilkes after he was expelled from the House of Commons.

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Society of the United Scotsmen

The Society of the United Scotsmen was an organisation formed in Scotland in the late 18th century and sought widespread political reform throughout Great Britain.

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Society of United Irishmen

The Society of United Irishmen was a sworn association, formed in the wake of the French Revolution, to secure representative government in Ireland.

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Spa Fields riots

The Spa Fields riots were incidents of public disorder arising out of the second of two mass meetings at Spa Fields, Islington, England on 15 November and 2 December 1816.

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Spitalfields

Spitalfields is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Statute of Artificers 1562

The Statute of Artificers 1563 or the Artificers and Apprentices Act 1563 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 4) was an Act of Parliament of England, under Queen Elizabeth I, which sought to fix prices, impose maximum wages, restrict workers' freedom of movement and regulate training.

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Stocking frame

A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Strikebreaker

A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite a strike.

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Suffrage

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).

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Swedish labour movement

The labour movement in Sweden dates back to at least the 1850s, when Swedish workers initiated the organizing of previously spontaneous food riots into strikes, hence acting as an autonomous group.

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Syndicalism

Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the labour movement that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through social ownership.

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Tailor

A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing.

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The Black Dwarf (journal)

The Black Dwarf (1817–1824) was a satirical radical journal of early 19th century Britain.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval officer, peer, mercenary and politician.

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Thomas Fyshe Palmer

Thomas Fyshe Palmer (1747–1802) was an English Unitarian minister, political reformer and convict.

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Thomas Jonathan Wooler

Thomas Jonathan Wooler (1786 – 29 October 1853) was a British publisher active in the Radical movement of early 19th century Britain, best known for his satirical journal The Black Dwarf.

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Thomas Muir of Huntershill

Thomas Muir (24 August 1765 – 25 January 1799), also known as Thomas Muir the Younger of Huntershill, was a Scottish political reformer and lawyer.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1.

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Thomas Spence

Thomas Spence (17508 September 1814) was an English Radical, Spartacus-Educational.com, accessed 27 February 2019 and advocate of the common ownership of land and a democratic equality of the sexes.

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Tolpuddle Martyrs

The Tolpuddle Martyrs were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who, in 1834, were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers.

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Tower of London

The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Trade unions in Albania

Trade unions in Albania have had an unstable existence in recent decades, mirroring the regional political turbulence in Albania.

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Trade unions in Algeria

Prior to Algerian independence in 1962, trade unions in Algeria were structured within regional organizations of French trade unions.

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Trade unions in Andorra

Trade unions in Andorra have had a brief existence, with the first trade union, the Andorran Workers' Union (AWU), being formed in 1990.

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Trade unions in Angola

Before 1975, while under Portuguese rule, Trade unions in Angola existed primarily as "occupational syndicates" - operating welfare services, but banned from collective bargaining and strike action.

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Trade unions in Antigua and Barbuda

Trade unions in Antigua and Barbuda have a significant presence in the workforce, representing approximately 75% of Antigua and Barbuda workers.

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Trade unions in Argentina

Trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation.

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Trade unions in Armenia

Trade unions in Armenia are afforded the right to organize by the Constitution of Armenia.

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Trade unions in Benin

Trade unions in Benin operate in relative freedom, with approximately 75% of the formal sector being unionized.

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Trade unions in Botswana

Trade Unions in Botswana operate within a longstanding democratic system in which the government of Botswana has ratified the International Labour Organization's core conventions, including Conventions 87 (Freedom of Association) and 98 (Right to Organize).

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Trade unions in Burkina Faso

Trade unions in Burkina Faso have played important roles in the country's history, helping to oust governments perceived as corrupt and dictatorial.

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Trade unions in Egypt

Trade unions in Egypt first emerged at the start of the 20th century, although organised collective action in the form of strikes undertaken by workers was recorded as early as 1882.

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Trade unions in Ethiopia

The trade unions of Ethiopia have a total membership of approximately 300,000.

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Trade unions in Germany

Trade unions in Germany have a history reaching back to the German revolution in 1848, and still play an important role in the German economy and society.

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Trade unions in Ghana

Trade unions in Ghana first emerged in the 1920s and have played an important role in the country's economy and politics ever since.

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Trade unions in India

Trade unions in India are registered and file annual returns under the Trade Union Act (1926).

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Trade unions in Malaysia

Trade unions in Malaysia are regulated by the Trade Unions Act of 1959 and the Industrial Relations Act of 1967.

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Trade unions in Maldives

Until 2008 trade unions were not allowed in the Maldives, however with the passing of the Employment Act (2008) and the ratification of a new constitution, trade union rights (including the right to strike) were formalised.

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Trade unions in Nauru

Trade unions in Nauru do not have a significant structure in the country.

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Trade unions in Niger

Trade unions in Niger are free to engage in regular unionist activities, with constitutionally protected provisions for forming and joining trade unions.

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Trade unions in Oman

There are few trade unions in Oman, established following a 2006 Decree by the Sultan of Oman permitting their organization.

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Trade unions in Pakistan

Trade unions in Pakistan are regulated under provincial industrial relations acts.

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Trade unions in Qatar

Qatar has been a member of the International Labour Organization since 1972, but has not ratified the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, or the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949.

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Trade unions in Senegal

Trade unionism is a powerful force in the politics, economy, and culture of Senegal, and was one of the earliest trades union movements to form in Francophone West Africa.

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Trade unions in South Africa

Trade unions in South Africa has a history dating back to the 1880s.

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Trade unions in Switzerland

Trade unions in Switzerland have their origins in the 19th century when the country began to industrialise.

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Trade unions in Tanzania

The trade unions of Tanzania have a total membership of approximately 370,000.

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Trade unions in the United Kingdom

Trade unions in the United Kingdom emerged in the early 19th century, but faced punitive laws that sharply limited their activities.

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Trades Union Congress

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions that collectively represent most unionised workers in England and Wales.

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Unionization

Unionization is the creation and growth of modern trade unions.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Universal health care

Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Welfare

Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter.

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Welfare state

A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.

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West of England

The West of England is an area of South West England around the River Avon.

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William Cobbett

William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey.

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William Hone

William Hone (3 June 1780 – 8 November 1842) was an English writer, satirist and bookseller.

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William J. Oliver

William J. Oliver, (?1774–1827) also known as Oliver the Spy, W. J. Richards and W. O. Jones, was a police informer and supposed agent provocateur at a time of social unrest, immediately after the Napoleonic Wars.

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William Pitt the Younger

William Pitt (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801.

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Worker cooperative

A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and self-managed by its workers.

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Worker representation on corporate boards of directors

Worker representation on corporate boards of directors, also known as board-level employee representation (BLER) refers to the right of workers to vote for representatives on a board of directors in corporate law.

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Workerism

Workerism is a political theory that emphasizes the importance of or glorifies the working class.

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Workers' Party

Workers' Party is a name used by several political parties throughout the world.

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Working class

The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.

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Workweek and weekend

The weekdays and weekend are the complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively.

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15th The King's Hussars

The 15th The King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army.

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1892 New Orleans general strike

The New Orleans general strike was a general strike in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, that began on November 8, 1892.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement

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