Trades unions
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Liberals and Trade Unions: The General Strike of 1926
One hundred years ago, from 4 to 12 May 1926, the TUC held the General Strike in support of the mineworkers, who were being forced to accept lower wages and work longer hours to maintain their employers’ profitability. It was one of the most dramatic peacetime events in twentieth-century Britain, affecting people and communities throughout the…
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The Lloyd George coalition governments: labour and industrial relations
Chris Wrigley examines what the Lloyd George governments achieved for labour and industrial relations
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The Liberal Party and the trade unions in the 1870s
Did the Liberals miss an historical opportunity to become the party of organised labour and the trade unions in the 1870s?
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Report: Liberals and organised labour
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at Harrogate, March 2005 with David Powell and Keith Laybourn.
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Liberals and organised labour
The loss of the support of organised labour during the late Victorian and Edwardian period was a key factor in the decline of the Liberal Party as an electoral force. Once this confidence in the party was gone, the Liberals never got it back and trade union and labour issues have never since had the…