Abstract
In July 1901 the House of Lords decided that the Taff Vale Railway Company could sue the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants for damages as compensation for lost income as a result of a strike in August 1900. Which Union could now dare to strike and risk crippling litigation? The Lords’ decision provoked a majority of Trade Unions to support the idea of a Labour Party in Parliament and placed in perspective the status gained by Trade Unions in the previous hundred years.
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Further reading
H. Pelling, A History of British Trade Unionism (1968);
A. E. Musson, British Trade Unions 1800–1875 (1972);
A. Briggs & J. Saville (eds), Essays in Labour History (1971);
S. & B. Webb, The History of Trade Unionism (1920).
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© 1980 Neil Tonge and Michael Quincey
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Tonge, N., Quincey, M. (1980). Trade Unions. In: British Social and Economic History 1800–1900. Documents and Debates. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04991-2_4
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