Trade Unions and Combinations of Workmen
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Workmen's combinations and clubs, criminalised as conspiracies and unlawful associations under the Combination Act of 1800 and later freed from that status in 1824.
Clubs of all kinds were objects of terror.
the strike was a crime, the trade union was un unlawful association.
This is roughly true, but artisans were no better represented in the Parliament of 1824 than in the Parliament of 1800, yet the Parliament of 1824 repealed the Combination Act and freed trade combinations from the operation of the law of conspiracy.