Trade unionism
“doctrine”
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Trade-unionism · collective bargaining · the Union · trade unionism
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The doctrine and practice of collective bargaining by organized workers, discussed as a step toward collectivism.
Trade unionism, which means collective bargaining, and involves practical restrictions on individual freedom of contract, could find no favour in the eyes of Liberals who belonged to the school of Bentham.
The abandonment, therefore, of the Charter, combined with the changed character of unionism, made it possible for men who were opposed to all violence or revolution to enter into an alliance with the artisans, or at any rate to sympathise with their policy.
The advocates of the Charter (who might, at this period, be identified with the artisans of the towns) abandoned chartism, and either gave up all interest in public affairs, or devoted their efforts to movements of which the object was not political, but social.
Law in a Free State
The doctrine and practice of workers combining to restrict the supply of labour in order to raise its price, examined as one of the proposed remedies for wagedom.
Trade - unionism aims at raising the price of labour by diminishing the supply:
If all the workers refused, say, to work more than four hours a day, the price of labour would at first be nearly doubled;