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British Trade Unionism and Cooperation 1780-1870

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Could Women vote in the Rochdale Society
Yes
Name of the TUC newspaper
The Beehive
Name of the cooperative newspaper published from 1827-29
The Cooperator
Number of trade union members by 1874
1,000,000
Year in which the Corn Laws were introduced
1815
Percentage of NMU funds invested back for workers
99
Maximum working day at New Lanark (hours)
12
By 1868, the Cooperative Wholesale Society was trading with Australia and which other continent?
South America
Profit made over 29 years by New Lanark
£300,000
Concept involving the profits from cooperative shops being reinvested into the local community thus benefiting the community
Virtuous Cycle
Number of people who paid membership to GNCTU
16,000
The percentage of England’s population that was in Friendly Societies by 1803
8
Number of people convicted under the 1799 and 1800 combination acts
10-15
Year of the Russian Tsar's visit to New Lanark
1810
Number of Cooperative stores by 1832
500
Proportion of population insured by Friendly societies by 1815
1/3
Number of Cooperative stores by mid 1850s
1,000
Year of the Friendly Societies Act that meant Friendly Societies had to register with local Justices of the Peace
1793
Name of the disastrous strike in 1834, which resulted in the firing of all those who striked
Derby Lockout
Minimum age of New Lanark workers
10
What did the NMU for Builders go on strike for in 1859-60?
Piecework
Nationality of workers who made striking union workers replaceable
Irish
Number of GNCTU members
1,000,000
Members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) in 1861
33,000
Number of trade union members by 1850
100,000
Person who felt that the ASE was an ‘Aristocracy of Labour’ which ignored the working classes
Lenin
Ratio of Friendly societies : Trade Unions by 1870
4:1
Name of the Government office friendly societies had to register with by 1846
The Registrar of Friendly Societies
Number of people prosecuted per year under the Master and Servant Act, 1858-75
10,000
Number of children in Robert Owen's New Lanark school
100
Did the Rochdale Society supply credit to their customers?
No
Year of Robert Owen's purchase of New Lanark
1799
Value of Cooperative property by the mid 70s
£300,000
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