Trades Union Congress - The History of the TUC, Part one 1868-1899

Issue date

12 Mar 2001

Originally published in 1968

Section - George Woodcock's foreword
Section - "why not have a congress of our own?"
Section - the invitation to the first Congress
Section - early union leaders and their causes
Section - events that led to the first TUC
Section - the TUC's first victories
Section - working hours and conditions
Section - the price of coal
Section - uniting miners
Section - compensation for injuries
Section - uniting farm workers
Section - teachers, the first white collar unionists
Section - on the brink of a new century
Section - the great 1899 dockers' strike

The Union Makes us Strong' tells the story of the labour movement over the last 200 years and includes replicas of original source documents. www.unionhistory.info