Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain viscous flows hitherto vague and ambiguous

hitherto vague and ambiguous

and Industrial Policy

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With a wide-angle lens on the contemporary scene

Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain viscous flows hitherto vague and ambiguousThis is a study of how governments and their specialist advisers, in an age of free trade and the minimal state, attempted to create a viable legal framework for trade unions and strikes. It traces the collapse, in the face of judicial interventions, of the regime for collective labour devised by the Liberal Tories in the 1820s, following the repeal of the Combination Acts. The new arrangements enacted in the 1870s allowed collective labour