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.
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were no better represented in the Parliament of 1824 than in the Parliament of 1800, yet the Parliament of 1824 repealed the Combination Act and freed trade combinations from the operation of the law of conspiracy.
106, which must be read in connection with the law of conspiracy as then interpreted by the judges, aimed in reality at one object, namely, the suppression of all combinations of workmen, whether transitory or permanent, of which the object was to obtain an advance of wages or otherwise fix the terms of employment;
The first is the Combination Act of 1800, which derives special importance from its intimate connection with the subsequent development of the combination law—a branch of the law which has been affected in a very marked degree by changes in public opinion.